We are thrilled to announce the
Liberty Bell High School Drama Company
will be performing in May!
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May 19th - 22nd
7:00 PM |
May 23rd
2:00 PM |
at the TwispWorks Pavilion
$15 Adults | $5 Youth
Rated PG 13 for language and some disturbing imagery
$15 Adults | $5 Youth
Rated PG 13 for language and some disturbing imagery
Bring your own blanket or lawn chair and plan to sit with members of your household. Audience members must wear a mask and follow social distancing guidelines the day of the event. Please do not attend if you feel unwell, refunds available for cancellations.
About the play: In October 1998, 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 of which we are capable.
Directed by Kelly Grayum & Danbert Nobacon
with support from
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