Monday, 12 October 2009 08:00
Leave a city for 10 years, and when you come back you expect that nothing, or everything, has changed.
But it was more complicated than that for Moisés Kaufman and his fellow writers in the Tectonic Theater Project, who returned to Laramie, Wyoming — scene of their acclaimed drama The Laramie Project — 10 years after Matthew Shepard’s death.
The Laramie Project was Tectonic’s attempt to make sense of what happened in Laramie in October 1998 when Shepard, a 21-year-old gay college student, was beaten to death — the result, many said, of a hate crime. A decade later, members of the New York-based troupe went back to see what had changed.
Read More At The Orlando Sentinel
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