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The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
  • Published: 1 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780804170390
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

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This new and expanded edition of one of America's most-performed plays contains the complete Laramie Project Cycle: together, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later create a powerful vision of the small Wyoming town where Matthew Shepard was murdered. A Vintage Original.

Two classic plays in a single volume: One of the most-performed theater pieces in America about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard and the town in which it happened, joined by an essential and moving sequel to the original play.

"A terrific piece of theater, history, and life.... Nothing short of stunning.... A theatrical and human event.” —New York magazine

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of the town, the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its citizens. From the transcripts, the playwrights constructed an extraordinary chronicle of life in the town after the murder.

In The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, the troupe revisits the town a decade after the tragedy, finding a community grappling with its legacy and its place in history. The two plays together comprise an epic and deeply moving theatrical cycle that explores the life of an American town over the course a decade.
  • Published: 1 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780804170390
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the authors

Moises Kaufman

Moisés Kaufman is a Tony and Emmy-nominated director and award-winning playwright. He is also the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project.

Mr. Kaufman’s plays Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project (which he co-wrote with the members of Tectonic Theater) have been among the most performed plays in America over the last decade.

He is also the author of the Tony Nominated play 33 Variations; One Arm (his adaptation of the Tennessee Williams screenplay of the same name); and the short play London Mosquitoes. 

He has directed numerous plays on Broadway including The Heiress starring Jessica Chastain; 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda; the Pulitzer-nominated play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph, with Robin Williams; and the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright which earned Mr. Kaufman an Obie Award for direction as well as Tony, Outer Critics, Lucille Lortell, Drama Desk Awards nominations.

Mr. Kaufman also directed the film adaptation of The Laramie Project, which aired on HBO and was the opening night selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. The film won a Special Mention at the Berlin Film Festival and he received two Emmy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Writer.

Mr. Kaufman is a Guggenheim Fellow.

MK

Praise for The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

Praise for The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

  • "[A] vital production.... Rekindles all the anger and heartbreak.... Illuminates with disturbing clarity how sharply attitudes toward the killing have changed in Laramie, how a revised history has gradually replaced the facts of the case, once undisputed." --The New York Times
    • Praise for The Laramie Project
  • "Deeply moving.... This play is Our Town with a question mark, as in 'Could this be our town?'" --The New York Times
  • "A terrific piece of theater, history, and life.... Nothing short of stunning." --New York magazine

    • Praise for The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

  • "[A] vital production.... Rekindles all the anger and heartbreak.... Illuminates with disturbing clarity how sharply attitudes toward the killing have changed in Laramie, how a revised history has gradually replaced the facts of the case, once undisputed." --The New York Times
    • Praise for The Laramie Project
  • "Deeply moving.... This play is Our Town with a question mark, as in 'Could this be our town?'" --The New York Times
  • "A terrific piece of theater, history, and life.... Nothing short of stunning." --New York magazine