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16 February 2024 to 02 March 2024
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. The 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.
Content Warning: This production explores the following themes which may be triggering for some audience members: Homophobia, hate speech and hate crime, prejudice and intolerance, death, violence, kidnapping, torture and murder.