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The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later
Posted 10-13-2009 at 03:10 AM by Officelover
Tags the laramie project, theater
This is an amazing play. It is a docu-drama, meaning like a scripted documentary. What happened was a man named Matthew Shepard (who was gay) was brutally murdered in a hate crime. A theater company from New York came and talked to them about what had happened and how they felt about it. They then used all that dialogue in this play.
Last night was the 11 years anniversary, so I saw "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" in which the theater company goes back and reinterviews the same people, and the perpetrators themselves. It's very interesting and shocking, and at the same time it asks an important question: What is truth? Do we construct our own history?
Many people in Ten Years Later seem to think that it wasn't a hate crime at all. Many of them think that his homosexuality played no role at all in his murder. It was established, owever, factually that homosexuality played a key role in his death, and that there were no drugs involved (Even though many people continue to believe there were.)
In the end, as it was a docu-drama, there was no resolution or fantasy-like ending. There was no meaning that the author could convey in the script. Why? Because he didn't write it. These were real people talking, off-book.
Great play.
Last night was the 11 years anniversary, so I saw "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" in which the theater company goes back and reinterviews the same people, and the perpetrators themselves. It's very interesting and shocking, and at the same time it asks an important question: What is truth? Do we construct our own history?
Many people in Ten Years Later seem to think that it wasn't a hate crime at all. Many of them think that his homosexuality played no role at all in his murder. It was established, owever, factually that homosexuality played a key role in his death, and that there were no drugs involved (Even though many people continue to believe there were.)
In the end, as it was a docu-drama, there was no resolution or fantasy-like ending. There was no meaning that the author could convey in the script. Why? Because he didn't write it. These were real people talking, off-book.
Great play.
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