The Laramie Project + The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

Title: The Laramie Project + The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Author: Fondakowski, Leigh
Price: $25.00

The Laramie Project premiered on February 19, 2000, and went on to become one of the most-performed pieces of theater in America. The groundbreaking play portrays a small Wyoming town after one of its citizens, a young gay man named Matthew Shepard, was targeted, beaten and left to die. Based on transcripts of more than 200 interviews with people of the town, The Laramie Project is both a mainstay of modern theater and a focal point for political activism. Now, in this volume, The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later joins the original work. The second play-a stunning coda to the original-revisits Laramie a decade after the tragedy, and finds a town grappling with the twin specters of justice and forgiveness. Here, the Tectonic Theater Project exposes the denial that has taken root-claims that Matthew was killed, not out of hate, but out of a robbery gone wrong. Together, these plays comprise a deeply moving theatrical cycle that explores the depths to which humanity can sink-and the heights of compassion to which we can rise. This new edition will replace The Laramie Project in our backlist.
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This new and expanded edition of one of America's most-performed plays contains the complete Laramie Project Cycle- together, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later create a powerful vision of the small Wyoming town where Matthew Shepard was murdered.

Moises Kaufman is the founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project, a theater company based in New York City. His 1997 play Gross Indecency- The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde was named one of the best plays of the year by Time, Newsday, The New York Post, The Advocate, and The New York Times. With Tectonic he has directed works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Benjamin Britten, Sophie Treadwell, and Christohper Ashley, as well as new works by Peter Golub and Naomi Iizuka. He is the recipient of the 1997 Joe A. Callaway Award for excellence in the craft of stage direction, given by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation for his work on Gross Indecency.

In his native Venezuela, Mr. Kaufman performed as an actor with the Thespis Theater Ensemble, one of the country's foremost experimental theater companies. He has lived in New York City since 1987.

Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication date: 03/06/2014
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780804170390