Timeline
2004 – North-west premiere for Manchester Pride. Raised £1500 for Lesbian and Gay Foundation.
2005 – Performed as part of Queer up North International Festival at Studio Salford.
2005 – Toured to Liverpool for the Homotopia Festival. Supported by the Arts Council.
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The Laramie Project
By Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project
Directed by Adam Zane
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 brutality and hate that shocked the world. Matthew Shepard’s death became an international symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal and it is their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theatre piece. Moisés Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project created this ground-breaking play from over 200 interviews conducted with Laramie residents in the year following Matthew’s death.
Hope Theatre Company presented the North-west premiere in 2004.
Tectonic have invited Hope to present the UK premiere of The Laramie Project, 10 Years Later...An Epilogue on October 12 2009.
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Press Quotes:
‘A beautiful piece of theatre…You must see this play!’
Outnorthwest
‘A shattering piece of work, designed to pierce the hardest of hearts’
City Life
‘This moving piece of drama has strange echoes of real life 'queer bashing', and helps raise awareness of a very real prejudice and active discrimination against one section of our society.’
Liverpool08