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February 28, March 1, 2003
Walkers Point Center For The
Arts
March 8, 2003
AACTFest 2003
Platteville Community
Theatre, Platteville, Wisconsin |
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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 bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next
day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was
Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was
gay. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the 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. They conducted more than 200 interviews with
the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected
to the case and others were citizens of Laramie. The Laramie Project
chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder. |
