This new and expanded edition of one of America's most-performed plays contains the complete Laramie Project Cycle- together, The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project- Ten Years Later create a powerful vision of the small Wyoming town where Matthew Shepard was murdered.
MOIS S KAUFMANis a Tony and Emmy-nominated director andplaywright, and theco-founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project.Kaufman's plays Gross Indecency- The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and The Laramie Project (which he co-wrote with the members of Tectonic Theater) have been among the most performed plays in America over the last decade. He is also the author of the Tony Nominated play 33 Variations; One Arm (his adaptation of the Tennessee Williams screenplay of the same name); and the short play London Mosquitoes.He has directed numerous plays on Broadway includingthe Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright which earned Mr. Kaufman an Obie Award for direction as well asTony, Outer Critics, Lucille Lortell, Drama Desk Awards nominations. Kaufman directed the film adaptation of The Laramie Project, which aired on HBO and was the opening night selection at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. Kaufman is a Guggenheim Fellow.
“The Laramie Project is a terrific piece of theater, history, and
life.... There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you
will see on the walls of the churches of the world.... Nothing
short of stunning.... A theatrical and human event.” —New York
magazine
“A towering theatrical accomplishment.... [The Laramie Project is]
Our Town for the new millennium, capturing from real life the same
sense of humanity in the raw that Thornton Wilder did years ago
with the fictional Grover’s Corner. The play moves the theater in a
new and different direction.” —San Francisco Times
“Deeply moving.... [Kaufman] has a remarkable gift for giving a
compelling theatrical flow to journalistic and historical
material.... This play is Our Town with a question mark, as in
‘Could this be our town?’” —The New York Times
“Remarkable.... [A] probing and distinctive theater piece ...
assembled with care, compassion and dollops of comic relief.... The
high-octane performances and unique staging make this a must see
for any theatergoer.” —New York Daily News
"Few playwrights have cut to the heart of tragedy so unerringly."
—The Village Voice
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