The Laramie Project, Tucson High Style
Lolly told me about it. We find ourselves at the same, interesting, unconnected venues without planning together, so I took her suggestion seriously. A blast email found two friends with a free afternoon, and we were off on an adventure unlike any other. http://tinyurl.com/lh6jtsa This was a deep, serious, thought and tear provoking event. Based on months of interviews by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Project, the play chronicles the death of Matthew Shepard through the eyes of the 22,687 inhabitants of Laramie, Wyoming. Tied so tightly that the first officer on the scene struggled to cut the ropes, beaten so badly that his face was unrecognizable, he bled and cried and suffered alone until a random bicyclist passed the lonely buck fence in the wind. The only clean place on his body were the tracks of tears on his cheeks. Even the plain facts are horrifying. At 5'2" tall.... or maybe taller, depending on whose telling the story.... ...