In 1998, a young gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. The crime sent shockwaves through the town and reverberated through the USA and the world. Just a month after the murder, members of the Tectonic Theatre Project arrived in Laramie and set about conducting a series of interviews which formed the basis of The Laramie Project - one of the most performed plays of the last decade. The original creators returned to the town exactly ten years later to see how the stigma of this crime had affected Laramie. What they found defied all expectations.
Red Stitch participated in the worldwide simultaneous reading of an entirely new play, The Laramie Project - 10 Years Later, on the anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death in 2009. The full production is the Australian premiere of a work as startling and compelling as the original.
Red Stitch participated in the worldwide simultaneous reading of an entirely new play, The Laramie Project - 10 Years Later, on the anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death in 2009. The full production is the Australian premiere of a work as startling and compelling as the original.
Note: New 4pm Saturday* matinees May 7, 14, 21, 28
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