The Laramie Project

So What?
Presents
A Special 10 Year Anniversary Production of

The Laramie Project

By Moisés Kaufman
and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
By Arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, On Behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc New York


The Laramie Project stands as a symbol against hate, for encouraging respect for individuality, and for tolerance. It is a story which ultimately transcends the circumstances of its crime and the sexuality of the victim, to become a potent meditation on effects of casual prejudice, and the way in which young people are conditioned to think in the twenty-first century.

This November production of The Laramie Project will be the only Australian production which coincides with the tenth anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death and the Tectonic Theater Project’s first journey to Laramie. Due to this special commemorative production, it is the first and only production in Australia which has received the written support of The Matthew Shepard Foundation, formed by Matthew’s mother, Judy Shepard, to speak out against hate crimes.

In our production, the show will be performed by a group of ten student actors, suggesting rather than inhabiting an ensemble of over sixty characters. This play is a famous example of ‘documentary’ or ‘verbatim’ theatre – a show constructed solely of interviews and testimonies of witnesses to an event or people concerned with a particular topic. In using real events to form the basis of theatre, verbatim shows are often more ‘real’ than fictional pieces and have a slightly rawer quality – the words on stage are not manufactured by an author, but words of real people caught up in events, as edited by a dramaturge and the company.


1 - 22 November
8pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays
Newtown Theatre
Corner of King and Bray Streets, Newtown
Bookings: mca-tix.com / 1300 306 776
$15 / $18

www.laramieproject.com.au