THE LARAMIE PROJECT Scenic Design by Gabriel Firestone Source: www.GabrielFirestone.com

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Fifteen years ago, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Focusing on the local community’s reaction during the year after the murder, this poignant theatrical collage explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which it is capable.

Romaine Patterson, right, of State College, Pa., and other demonstrators dressed as Angels, stand outside the Albany County Courthouse in Laramie, Wyo., Monday, Oct. 11, 1999, as jury selection began

The 1999 play The Laramie Project explores the true story surrounding the death of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man who was beaten and left to die in Laramie, Wyo., in 1998. The case, which became a landmark symbol for hate crimes, still elicits varied reactions — which is why on Oct. 12, hundreds of other theaters around the world will perform The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an Epilogue.

The Laramie Project- Gabriel Firestone

The Laramie Project/Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Skärholmen The city Laramie was in 1998 shaken by the brutal murder of a young, homosexual man. Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, tortured and left to die tied to a barb-wire fence. What happened in a small town in the most sparsely populated state in the US, Wyoming, made headlines around the …

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Laramie population sign