The Anselmian Abbey Players



Thursday, November 8, 2012, 7:30pm
Friday, November 9, 2012, 7:30pm
Saturday, November 10, 2012, 7:30pm

The Laramie Project
by Moisés Kaufman and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project

In 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, tied to a cattle fence, beaten about the head, robbed and left to die on a bitterly cold October night on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming.

Five weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, and over the course of the next year, conducted more then 200 interviews with townspeople. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project, a chronicle of life in Laramie in the year after the murder, which explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion to which people are capable. One of the most performed plays in America today, The Laramie Project is "a pioneering work and powerful stage event," raves Time Magazine. Sixteen Abbey Players will perform the more than 60 characters in the play.