The Laramie Project

Shakespeare + Friends will present a dramatic reading of The Laramie Project, as part of their Soundstage Series in September. Directed by Catherine Gillet, The Laramie Project, an example of verbatim/documentary style theater, is a powerful and incredibly moving play based on the hate crime murder of a young gay man, Matthew Shepard, in 1998. This riveting piece of award winning theater was created through the combined efforts of members of the NY based Tectonic Theater Company-- directors, writers, dramaturgs and actors-- who traveled to Laramie, Wyoming several times over the course of a year to conduct hundreds of interviews with inhabitants of the town and includes company members' own journal entries, testimony of family members and friends of Shepard, and published news reports. It is divided into three acts. Eight talented local actors will portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.

“There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you will see on the walls of the churches of the world…nothing short of stunning…you will be held in rapt attention.” —New York Magazine.

Friday, September 13th, 7pm
Tryon Fine Arts Center Pavilion

Tickets are $15 per person. Beverages will be for sale.