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The Laramie Project Kindle Edition

by Moises Kaufman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it’s they we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece, a deeply complex portrait of a community.
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  5. Publication date
    13 January 2010
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About the Author

Moises Kaufman is the founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project, a theater company based in New York City. His 1997 play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde was named one of the best plays of the year by Time, Newsday, The New York Post, The Advocate, and The New York Times. With Tectonic he has directed works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Benjamin Britten, Sophie Treadwell, and Christohper Ashley, as well as new works by Peter Golub and Naomi Iizuka. He is the recipient of the 1997 Joe A. Callaway Award for excellence in the craft of stage direction given by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation for his work on Gross Indecency.

In his native Venezuela, Mr. Kaufman performed as an actor with the Thespis Theater Ensemble, one of the country's foremost experimental theater companies. He has lived in New York City since 1987. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004FEG2L8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition (13 January 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 976 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 130 pages
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Reuben Jensen
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic play. Loved it when I saw it performed ...
Reviewed in Australia on 11 August 2015
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Fantastic play. Loved it when I saw it performed and loved reading it again. If you are a human being you will love this play.
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Nancy Grégoire
5.0 out of 5 stars Le projet Laramie
Reviewed in Canada on 24 May 2017
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Si vous voulez savoir ce que les gens de Laramie ont pensé de la mort du jeune Matthew Sheppard, je vous recommande fortement ce livre! C'est un regard rempli de compassion sur un crime haineux et son résultat.
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CARNLOU
5.0 out of 5 stars An Extraordinary, Heartfelt Read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 December 2012
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The Laramie Project is a play that attempts to examine the aftermath in Laramie, Wyoming, of murdered college student, Matthew Shephard.

I basically bought this to use as a case study for an upcoming college exam in moral Theology. The play covers many of the issues I intend to focus on ie. Murder, Human Rights, The Death Penalty and the HIV/AIDs problem.

The beautiful thing about this play is that it is authentic. The words within it are real, spoken by real people of the town of Laramie. Moreover, the people themselves come from all walks of life - whether they be ranchers, ministers, college students or bartenders - everybody has a story to tell!

Overall, the play is an extraordinary, heartfelt read and I say this because you can 'feel' the words impact on your mind as they are read. The speakers are real, so you get the sense of grieving with the residents and trying to come to terms with such a horrible crime.

Buy it. Money well spent.

Also, do check out the HBO produced film, The Laramie Project... it is almost word-for-word like this play.
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Gary F. Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Theatrical Piece; A Powerful Statement
Reviewed in the United States on 10 November 2007
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Matthew Shepard was about two months short of his twenty-second birth when he was robbed, beaten, tied to a fence post and left to die in a rural area of Wyoming. The man who found him at first thought he was a scarecrow. Rushed to Poudre Valley Hospital at Fort Collins, he died on 12 October 1998--and when Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney were arrested for the crime they resorted to a defense known as "gay panic." Matthew Shepherd had propositioned them, they said, and they were so horrified that they killed him in response.

The gay community and numerous civil rights watchdog groups were outraged by the defense, and as more and more facts came to light it seemed that the crime was somewhat more complicated than Henderson and McKinney wanted the public to know. Witnesses stated that Henderson and McKinney had specifically targeted Shepherd because he was gay. After much legal wrangling, Henderson pled guilty and testified against McKinney, who was convicted; after still more legal wrangling, and at the request of Shepherd's parents, McKinney escaped the death penalty but has no chance of parole.

The case made headlines from end of the United States to the other and prompted numerous calls for Hate Crimes legislation, which had long been stalled both at the state and federal level. And in the midst of the confusion, chaos, and controversy, Moises Kaufman and the members of The Tectonic Theatre Project arrived on the scene, interviewing more than two hundred people about their thoughts and feelings on the case. These were shaped into THE LARAMIE PROJECT, a drama that debuted in 2000 and which has since shocked, impressed, and deeply moved audiences from coast to coast.

Playscripts are not really intended to be read; they are intended to be performed, and there can be a significant difference between how a script and how it plays. This is particularly true of THE LARAMIE PROJECT, which doesn't consist of scenes or acts but of "moments"--bits and pieces of monologue and dialogue and staging that non-play-readers will likely find difficult to envision. When performed, all those bits and pieces become like tiles in a mosaic: they may seem to mean different things individually, but when performed one right after another they become a unified whole.

Perhaps the single most impressive thing about THE LARAMIE PROJECT is its refusal to "take sides." The play presents its characters and their words with commenting in favor of them or against them; you are instead allowed to interpret for yourself. The result is uniquely powerful. Strongly recommended.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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takashi_groovy
3.0 out of 5 stars 読みながら、そして読んだ後に考えてください。
Reviewed in Japan on 15 June 2004
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実際に起こった同性愛の殺人事件を基にしたこの作品は、事件を知らない人が読んでも心の中にざわめきを覚えるに違いない。まして事件のことをニュースなどで知っている人にとってはまさに事件の追憶となるだろう。この本を読むことで、同性愛に限らず、様々なことを考えるきっかけになるだろう。
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GraceNewman
5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful insight into attitudes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2018
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I read this after my friend told me about his performance in it and how the cast got so emotionally invested in it, so I had to give it a go. To say the least, it holds a mirror to contrasting beliefs, and surfaces the notion of acceptance and tolerance towards homosexuality in the world in a gripping, intriguing style. 10/10
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