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10/22/07

'LARAMIE PROJECT' DRAMA ON STAGE AT SLU OCT. 31-NOV. 3

CANTON - The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project, will be presented at St. Lawrence University on Wednesday through Saturday, October 31 through November 3, at 8 p.m. each evening in the Blackbox Theater, E.J. Noble University Center. Admission is free, but tickets are required. They are available at the Gulick Theater box office, Monday through Friday, October 29-November 2, from 1 to 5 p.m.

The production is directed by Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead.

In October of 1998, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Kaufman and fellow members of the New York-based 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 of whom were directly connected to the case and others who were citizens of Laramie. The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder and is one of the most performed plays in America today.

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