SSCC Theatre production of The Laramie 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 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. Moisés 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, and the breadth of their reactions to the
crime is fascinating. 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.