The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kaufman, not only investigates the events that lead to the tragic death of Matthew Shepard, but also gives the residents of the small town of Laramie, Wyoming and our country, a look inside themselves. The play insightfully twists fact with opinion to create a more dramatic story than the heartbreaking murder alone. Matthew, a twenty-one year old, gay student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally beaten and left to die, tied to a fence near what is thought to…
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