21-25 May School Groups Sessions, 11am $ 16 per student To book school groups phone 03 9281 8582 Or fill in the Schools Booking Request form
Arts Centre Melbourne presents a Red Stitch Theatre production
The Laramie Project - 10 Years Later
'… a must-see.' **** The Age
Back by popular demand after a highly acclaimed premiere season in 2011, don't miss Red Stitch Theatre’s topical epilogue play, The Laramie Project – 10 Years Later.
This is a work which explores the many different ways a small town community remembers the events surrounding a shocking crime. It challenges how we tell our own history, how we construct our own identity – and importantly, our omissions, exclusions and the power of rumour.
In 1998, young gay student, Mathew Shepard, was brutally murdered on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming.
A month after the murder, the members of Tectonic Theater Project travelled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the play The Laramie Project which became one of the most performed scripts across the world over the last decade.
In 2008, ten years later, the creators of this work return to Laramie to see how the town had changed since Shepard's death. What they found defied expectation.
The Laramie Project – 10 Years Later offers itself as a stand-alone piece skilfully exploring the erosion of truth over time.
Writer: Moisés Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project.
Director: Gary Abrahams By Arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, Inc New York.
Since 2005, May 17 has been dedicated to IDAHO - the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Arts Centre Melbourne is please to present this important season within the same week.
