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The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later - Softcover

Kaufman, Moises; Tectonic Theater Project, Tectonic Theater Project; Fondakowski, Leigh

 
9780804170390: The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804170398 ISBN 13: 9780804170390
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MOISÉS KAUFMAN is a Tony and Emmy-nominated director and playwright, and the co-founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project. 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 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. Kaufman directed the film adaptation of The Laramie Project, which aired on HBO and was the opening night selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Kaufman is a Guggenheim Fellow.

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Moment: A Definition

narrator: On November fourteenth, nineteen ninety-eight, the members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, and conducted interviews with the ­people of the town. During the next year, we would return to Laramie several times and conduct over two hundred interviews. The play you are about to see is edited from those interviews, as well as from journal entries by members of the company and other found texts. Company member Greg Pierotti.

greg pierotti: My first interview was with Detective Sergeant Hing of the Laramie Police Department. At the start of the interview he was sitting behind his desk, sitting something like this (he transforms into Sergeant Hing):

I was born and raised here.

My family is, uh, third generation.

My grandparents moved here in the early nineteen hundreds.

We’ve had basically three, well, my daughter makes it fourth generation.

Quite a while. . . . It’s a good place to live. Good ­people— lots of space.

Now, all the towns in southern Wyoming are laid out and spaced because of the railroad came through. It was how far they ­could go before having to refuel and rewater. And, uh, Laramie was a major stopping point. That’s why the towns are spaced so far apart. We’re one of the largest states in the country, and the least populated.

rebecca hilliker: There’s so much space between ­people and towns here, so much time for reflection.

narrator: Rebecca Hilliker, head of the theater department at the University of Wyoming.

rebecca hilliker: You have an opportunity to be happy in your life here. I found that ­people here were nicer than in the Midwest, where I used to teach, because they were happy. They were glad the sun was shining. And it shines a lot here.

sergeant hing: What you have is, you have your old-time ­traditional-type ranchers, ­they’ve been here forever—Laramie’s been the hub of where they come for their supplies and stuff like that.

eileen engen: Stewardship is one thing all our ancestors taught us.

narrator: Eileen Engen, rancher.

eileen engen: If you don’t take care of the land, then you ruin it and you lose your living. So you first of all have to take care of your land and do every­thing you can to improve it.

doc o’connor: I love it here.

narrator: Doc O’Connor, limousine driver.

doc o’connor: You ­couldn’t put me back in that mess out there back east. Best thing about it is the climate. The cold, the wind. They say the Wyoming wind’ll drive a man insane. But you know what? It don’t bother me. Well, some of the times it bothers me. But most of the time it don’t.

sergeant hing: And then you got uh, the university population.

philip dubois: I moved here after living in a couple of big cities.

narrator: Philip Dubois, president of the University of Wyoming.

philip dubois: I loved it there. But you’d have to be out of your mind to let your kids out after dark. And here, in the summertime, my kids play out at night till eleven and I don’t think twice about it.

sergeant hing: And then you have the ­people who live in Laramie, basically.

zackie salmon: I moved here from rural Texas.

narrator: Zackie Salmon, Laramie resident.

zackie salmon: Now, in Laramie, if you don’t know a person, you will definitely know someone they know. So it can only be one degree removed at most. And for me—I love it! I mean, I love to go to the grocery store ’cause I get to visit with four or five or six ­people ­every time I go. And I don’t ­really mind ­people knowing my business—’cause what’s my business? I mean, my business is basically good.

doc o’connor: I like the trains, too. They don’t bother me. Well, some of the times they bother me, but most times they don’t. Even though one goes by ­every thirteen minutes out where I live. . . . 

narrator: Doc actually lives up in Bossler. But ­everybody in Laramie knows him. He’s also not ­really a doctor.

doc o’connor: They used to carry cattle . . . them trains. Now all they carry is diapers and cars.

april silva: I grew up in Cody, Wyoming.

narrator: April Silva, university student.

april silva: Laramie is better than where I grew up. I’ll give it that.

sergeant hing: It’s a good place to live. Good ­people, lots of space. Now, when the incident happened with that boy, a lot of press ­people came here. And one time some of them followed me out to the crime scene. And uh, well, it was a beautiful day, absolutely gorgeous day, real clear and crisp and the sky was that blue that, uh . . . you know, you’ll never be able to paint, it’s just sky blue—it’s just gorgeous. And the mountains in the background and a little snow on ’em, and this one reporter, uh, lady . . . person, that was out there, she said . . . 

reporter: Well, who found the boy, who was out here anyway?

sergeant hing: And I said, “Well, this is a ­really popular area for ­people to run, and mountain biking’s ­really big out here, horseback riding, it’s just, well, it’s close to town.” And she looked at me and she said:

reporter: Who in the hell would want to run out here?

sergeant hing: And I’m thinking, “Lady, you’re just missing the point.” You know, all you got to do is turn around, see the mountains, smell the air, just take in what’s around you. And they were just—nothing but the story. I ­didn’t feel judged, I felt that they were stupid. They’re, ­they’re missing the point—­they’re just missing the whole point.

jedadiah schultz: It’s hard to talk about Laramie now, to tell you what Laramie is, for us.

narrator: Jedadiah Schultz, university student.

jedadiah schultz: If you would have asked me before, I would have told you Laramie is a beautiful town, secluded enough that you can have your own identity. . . . A town with a strong sense of community—­everyone knows ­everyone. . . .  A town with a personality that most larger cities are stripped of. Now, after Matthew, I would say that Laramie is a town defined by an accident, a crime. We’ve become Waco, we’ve become Jasper. We’re a noun, a definition, a sign!

Moment: Journal Entries

narrator: Journal entries—members of the company. Andy Paris.

andy paris: Moisés called saying he had an idea for his next ­theater project. But there was a somberness to his voice, so I asked what it was all about and he told me he wanted to do a piece about what’s happening in Wyoming.

narrator: Stephen Belber.

stephen belber: Leigh told me the company was thinking of going out to Laramie to conduct interviews and that they wanted me to come. But I’m hesitant. I have no real interest in prying into a town’s unraveling.

narrator: Amanda Gronich.

amanda gronich: I’ve never done anything remotely like this in my life. How do you get ­people to talk to you? What do you ask?

narrator: Moisés Kaufman.

moisés kaufman: The company has agreed that we should go to Laramie for a week and interview ­people.

Am a bit afraid about taking ten ­people in a trip of this nature. Must make some safety rules. No one works...

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804170398
ISBN 13 
9780804170390
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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