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Tickets for 'The Laramie Project:Ten Years Later' On Sale Now
On behalf of my colleagues in the Drama and Dance department and the more than two dozen extraordinary students who comprise our cast and crew, I'm delighted to announce that tickets are now on sale for this year’s spring drama, THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER. This production will be a deeply moving theatrical experience that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable. It is a play of hope and hate, fear and courage, ignorance, and enlightenment.
THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER is rated PG-13 for mature subject matter involving a violent hate crime and explicit language and is NOT INTENDED for Lower School students. All children 13 and under MUST be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
(While this play contains challenging material and themes, explicit language, and is not intended for Lower School children, the Department of Drama and Dance and The Office of Multiculturalism and Inclusion sincerely hope every member of
the Buckley parent community will see this production.
The messages conveyed are consistent with Buckley’s commitment to equity, inclusion and to the representation of various voices and lived experiences that reflect our diverse world.)
THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER is an epilogue to the original play, THE LARAMIE PROJECT, performed at Buckley in 2009. A description follows for those unfamiliar with the subject of the two plays.
On October 6, 1998, on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, a young, gay college student by the name of Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence, savagely beaten, and left to die. A month after the murder, members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie and conducted over 200 interviews with the people of the town, chronicling how the community grappled with the slaying.
The transcripts became the basis for the play, THE LARAMIE PROJECT. Together, the incident in Laramie and the play it inspired launched a national dialogue about how we think and talk about homosexuality, sexual politics, violence, privileges and rights, and the difference between tolerance and acceptance.
Ten years later, members of the Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie to find out how the town had evolved in the decade after Shepard’s death. The result of the theater company’s interviews was a new play about what has and has not changed in Laramie and about how we frame our own histories, as individuals and as a society.
THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER is the continuing story, not just of, a Midwestern American town, but of the beliefs, fears, prejudices and hopes that continue to challenge and inspire us all.
PERFORMANCE DATES
March 9 – March 11 at 6:30pm
The Center for Community and the Arts
Tickets $10 at tickets.buckley.org
$15 at door day of performance, if available
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