Sussex County Community College

Friday, May 4, 2012 • 8 pm
Admission: $5–$10 • Performing Arts Center
Saturday, May 5, 2012 • 2 pm & 8 pm
Admission: $5–$10 • Performing Arts Center
Discounts for SCCC Students, Seniors, Children and Groups

SCCC Dramatic Arts Option and Performing Arts Club present:The Laramie Project
By Moisés Kaufman and Members of Tectonic Theater Project

In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating.

Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

The Laramie Project is made possible by Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 Photo by Don Schuhart, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, (Wisconsin)