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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS & DANCE
PREMIERES
THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER, EPILOGUE
ON OCT 12, 2009
The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece. Entitled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER. The writers of this play are members Tectonic Theater Project and playwright Moisés Kaufman. Loyola University New Orleans Department of Theatre Arts & Dance will join Tectonic Theater Project by reuniting the cast of their powerful and moving production ...Read More
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS & DANCE
PREMIERES
THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER, EPILOGUE
ON OCT 12, 2009
The creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project, which since 2000 has been one of the most performed plays in America, will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to the original piece. Entitled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER. The writers of this play are members Tectonic Theater Project and playwright Moisés Kaufman. Loyola University New Orleans Department of Theatre Arts & Dance will join Tectonic Theater Project by reuniting the cast of their powerful and moving production of The Laramie Project in a staged reading of the epilogue directed by C. Patrick Gendusa.
The play will be performed at Loyola and in New York at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, over 100 other theaters in all fifty states, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia on October 12, 2009.
The epilogue focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie. It explores how the town has changed and how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play also includes new interviews with Matthew’s mother Judy Shepard and Mathew’s murderer Aaron McKinney, who’s serving two consecutive life sentences. The writers also conducted many follow-up interviews with Laramie residents from the original piece.
In tandem with the Premiere, an online interactive community will be launched where participants can blog, upload video and photos and share their stories about the play, experiences in preparing and presenting the Epilogue in their communities. The members of Tectonic Theater Project will be active participants in the online community, offering participants feedback and encouragement.
“The Tectonic Theater Project set out to find out how Laramie had changed in the ten years since the murder of Matthew Shepard. When we arrived, we were forced to confront the question, ‘How do you measure change in a community?’ One of the things we found when we got there, which greatly surprised us, was people in Laramie saying this was not a hate crime,” said Moises Kaufman, Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project.
The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later will run in Satchmo’s (Basement of the Danna Center),
Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Avenue ,
October 12 @ 7:00 pm Free Admission
For more information go to:
www.laramieproject.com
www.tectonictheaterproject.org
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