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The Laramie Project - 10 years later
presented by South Puget Sound Community College Theater Department
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Thursday August 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Friday August 6, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Saturday August 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Sunday August 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Thursday August 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Friday August 13, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Saturday August 14, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Sunday August 15, 2010 at 2:00 PM
The Washington Center for the Performing Arts - SPSCC Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts
THURSDAYS PAY WHAT YOU CAN NIGHTS
General Admission: $12.50*
St/Faculty/Staff: $7.50*
*Plus $2.50 Service Charge
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On November 6, 1998, gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard left the Fireside Bar with Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. The following day he was discovered on a prairie at the edge of town, tied to a fence, brutally beaten, and close to death. Six days later Matthew Shepard died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado. On November 14th, 1998, ten members of Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming and conducted interviews with the people of the town. Over the next year, the company returned to The Laramie Project.
Ten years later on September 12, 2008, five members of the Tectonic returned to Laramie to try to understand the long-term effect of the murder. They found a town wrestling with its legacy and its place in history. In addition to revisiting the folks whose words riveted us in the original play, this time around, the company also spoke with the two murderers, McKinney and Henderson, as well as Matthew’s mother Judy Shepard. THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER is a bold new work, which asks the question, “How does society write its own history?
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