The Laramie Project & The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later

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.

The Laramie Project premiered on February 19, 2000, and went on to become one of the most-performed pieces of theater in America. The groundbreaking play portrays a small Wyoming town after one of its citizens, a young gay man named Matthew Shepard, was targeted, beaten and left to die. Based on transcripts of more than 200 interviews with people of the town, The Laramie Project is both a mainstay of modern theater and a focal point for political activism. Now, in this volume, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later joins the original work. The second play - a stunning coda to the original - revisits Laramie a decade after the tragedy, and finds a town grappling with the twin specters of justice and forgiveness. Here, the Tectonic Theater Project exposes the denial that has taken root-claims that Matthew was killed, not out of hate, but out of a robbery gone wrong. Together, these plays comprise a deeply moving theatrical cycle that explores the depths to which humanity can sink-and the heights of compassion to which we can rise.