Loyola University Uses the Power of Theatre with The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
(New Orleans)– The Loyola University Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and director C. Patrick Gendusa bring to the stage an invigorating theatrical production of The Laramie Project. In October 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie in Wyoming, USA, savagely beaten and left to die. Matthew Shepard's death became an American symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is their ...Read More
Loyola University Uses the Power of Theatre with The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
(New Orleans)– The Loyola University Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and director C. Patrick Gendusa bring to the stage an invigorating theatrical production of The Laramie Project. In October 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie in Wyoming, USA, savagely beaten and left to die. Matthew Shepard's death became an American symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is their voices we hear in this extraordinary theatrical production.
Moisés Kaufman and the Members of 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 men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people directly connected to the case and the citizens of Laramie.
This intensely moving production puts us in touch with our common humanity by presenting us with a single brutal event that threatens a town’s presumptions of decency, tolerance and religious faith.
The Laramie Project will run in the Marquette Theatre at Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Avenue, on November 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 @ 8:00 p.m. and November 4, 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets are $12, general admission and $8, students and senior citizens. Group rates are available. Please call (504) 865-2074 for information.
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