The Laramie Project

One of the most-performed theatre pieces in America about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard and the town in which it happened.

"A terrific piece of verbatim theater history and life.... Nothing short of stunning.... A theatrical and human event." - New York magazine

On October 7 1998 a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie Wyoming savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance but for the people of the town the event was deeply personal. In the aftermath Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie and conducted more than 200 interviews with its citizens. From the transcripts the playwrights constructed an extraordinary chronicle of life in the town after the murder.

Hailed as one of the most captivating and encompassing pieces of contemporary theatre the play shocks challenges and moves all who watch it as it reveals the lowest depths of hatred and greatest heights of compassion that lies within all human beings in any seemingly average community.

Join Cellar Door Theatre Company as they take over the cornerHOUSE to present this astonishing drama.

A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to the Kingston LGBTQ+ Forum supporting LGBTQ+ people in our local community.