They are updating The Laramie Project

http://www.laramieproject.org/reading.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/theater/04theater.html?_r=2

The creators of “The Laramie Project,” the acclaimed play about the 1998 murder of a 21-year-old gay man, Matthew Shepard, are finishing work on an 80-minute epilogue to the original work that will be given its debut simultaneously at dozens of theaters across the United States on Oct. 12, the 11th anniversary of Mr. Shepard’s death.


Moisés Kaufman, the playwright and director who, with his Tectonic Theater Project company, wrote and produced the first “Laramie Project,” said the epilogue would explore the impact of the Shepard killing on the residents of Laramie, Wyo., where it occurred. The dialogue will be drawn from interviews with dozens of people there, some of whom were involved in the crime, including Aaron McKinney, who was convicted of murdering Mr. Shepard and who gave an interview to the Tectonic artists.

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I am definitely going to go see this but will need about 12 hankies I think.

National Coming Out Day.



And I like the idea of a follow up with the locals a decade later.

To have his death forever linked with National Coming Out day is just horrible.

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