Northampton Community College presents The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theatre Project.
Directed by Clair Freeman, The Laramie Project will be performed in The Norman Roberts Lab Theatre in dedication to Northampton Theatre Department Chair, Bill Mutimer, whose legacy and light we will continue to celebrate. The Lab Theatre is on the first floor of Kopecek Hall. Performances are free to all NCC students with a current ID, and NCC faculty and staff. Ticket prices are $5 each for the general public.
We ask everyone to bring nonperishable food items to stock our H.O.P.E. Food Bank at NCC or feminine hygiene products to help NCC’s Women’s Club stock bathrooms on campus.
Performances will be held on:
Thursday, March 7th @ 7:30pm
Friday, March 8th @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 9th @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 10th @ 2 pm
Monday, March 11th @ 7:30 pm
About the play:
The Laramie Project takes place in October 1998, when a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion we are capable of.
Featuring the Cast: Brooke Harrsch, Cade Kocher, Aidan King, Andrew, Maldonado, Aidan Weller, Azelia Dos-Santos, Tamara Decker, Meaghan Lawlor, and Stage Manager, Shannon Callaghan.