THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, EPILOGUE Previews In Salt Lake City 10/9 Before Making It's World Premiere
By: Gabrielle Sierra Sep. 14, 2009
Kingsbury Hall, in conjunction with Plan-B Theatre, presents a preview performance of the new play by the creators of the highly acclaimed play The Laramie Project. Entitled THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER, the play will be performed in New York at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, and over 100 other theaters in all fifty states, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Hong Kong and Australia on October 12, 2009, with a preview performance in Salt Lake City on October 9, 2009.
Written by Tectonic Theater Project members Moisés Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris, and Stephen Belber, and directed by Plan-B's Jerry Rapier, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later will be performed at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Friday, October 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 - $24.50, with a $10 student ticket, and are available by calling 801-581-7100 or visiting www.kingtix.com.
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later focuses on the long-term effects of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie. It explores how the town has changed and how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play also includes new interviews with Matthew's mother Judy Shepard and Mathew's murderers Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, who's serving two consecutive life sentences, and features actors Kirt Bateman, Colleen Baum, Anita Booher, Joyce Cohen, Carl Nelson and Jedadiah Shultz, all of which appeared in Plan-B Theatre's 2001 production of The Laramie Project.
In conjunction with the preview performance, the PBS-produced documentary "Beyond Hatred" will be screened at the Salt Lake City Library Auditorium on Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30 p.m. The film documents the brutal beating and murder of twenty-nine-year-old François Chenu and the Chenu family's brave and heartrending struggle to seek justice while trying to make sense of such pointless violence and unbearable loss. With remarkable dignity, they fight to transcend hatred and the inevitable desire for revenge. This event, sponsored by KUED-7, is free and open to the public.
The preview performance also takes place during the University of Utah Pride Week. For more information on Pride Week events, visit www.sa.utah.edu/lgbt.
The International Community Convocation of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, is made possible by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and the support of these Presenting Partners:
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio
UA Presents, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Kingsbury Hall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Reston Community Center, Reston, Virginia
Miami University Performing Arts Series, Oxford, Ohio
Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
Celebrity Series of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
The Baptist Temple @ Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cal Poly Arts, San Luis Obispo, California
Fullerton College, Fullerton, California
Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver, Colorado
Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska
Choregus Productions LLC, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Maryland
Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Hope Theatre Company, Salford, United KingdomMORE INFORMATION:
On October 6th of 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died 6 days later. His murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted the violence and prejudice lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people face.
A month after the murder, the members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, which they later made into a film for HBO. The piece has been seen by more than 50 million people around the country.
For more information go to http://www.laramieproject.com
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