The Laramie Project

by Moisés Kaufman

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The Laramie Project

In "The Laramie Project," characters stand up to bigotry and hate through community solidarity and symbolic gestures. Residents of Laramie, Wyoming, initially skeptical of media attention, come to...

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Religion plays an unfortunate role in the Laramie Project because it is a conduit for prejudice and judgement. The way it keeps people apart is paradoxically also through judgement, and questioning...

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Kaufman's work is verbatim theatre, but takes a different angle than most verbatim theatre does. He uses the same techniques in collecting primary source material, but he uses them to start a...

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The main conflicts in The Laramie Project include the struggle between intolerance and acceptance, as the town of Laramie grapples with the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student....

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Rebecca Hilliker describes her students as "open" and "honest," seeing them as embodying hope for tolerance and acceptance. She appreciates their transparency and believes their candidness can foster...

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The Laramie Project utilizes interviews to construct a narrative by compiling over 200 interviews conducted by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project with Laramie, Wyoming citizens following...

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The members of the company include themselves in "The Laramie Project" to engage in self-reflection and analysis, making the play a study of both the events surrounding Matthew Shepard's murder and...

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I think that the play does portray the media in a negative light. The media comes to town and is painting Laramie with a brush of intolerance and hatred. There are many members of the community who...

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