STG Takes Another Look at Laramie Project
by McKenna Harrington '16
The Student Theatre Guild will present The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later at the end of this month. It is a play which reexamines the effects of Matthew Shepard's 1998 death 10 years after the fact. STG decided to do this play for many reasons.
The Student Theatre Guild will present The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later at the end of this month. It is a play which reexamines the effects of Matthew Shepard's 1998 death 10 years after the fact. STG decided to do this play for many reasons.
Amidst the increase of gun violence, school shootings, and domestic terrorism in our country, we are often being shown portraits of communities dealing with the abrupt effects of tragedy.
These smaller, previously overlooked towns are thrust into media feeding frenzies as reporters flood in, scavenging for interviews with involved and uninvolved residents as they create an often oversimplified profile of the victims, the case, and the place.
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later gives a glance at what happens to these communities over time. The cameras eventually leave but not without a trail of wreckage behind them. While some of these towns are forgotten, its people are forever changed. Every time an anniversary comes around, another TV movie is made, or a similar incident occurs in a different community, the people remember, talk, and, as human beings tend to do, form opinions.
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later discusses the chronic effects of tragedy in a small town. In 1998, the small town was Laramie, Wyoming; the tragedy was the hate crime committed against gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. Through the lens of Laramie, we are asked to consider what history is and how it defines a place and its people.
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These smaller, previously overlooked towns are thrust into media feeding frenzies as reporters flood in, scavenging for interviews with involved and uninvolved residents as they create an often oversimplified profile of the victims, the case, and the place.
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later gives a glance at what happens to these communities over time. The cameras eventually leave but not without a trail of wreckage behind them. While some of these towns are forgotten, its people are forever changed. Every time an anniversary comes around, another TV movie is made, or a similar incident occurs in a different community, the people remember, talk, and, as human beings tend to do, form opinions.
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later discusses the chronic effects of tragedy in a small town. In 1998, the small town was Laramie, Wyoming; the tragedy was the hate crime committed against gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. Through the lens of Laramie, we are asked to consider what history is and how it defines a place and its people.
History was made from 1998 to 2008. History has been also made since 2008. On June 26, 2015, in a landmark United States Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, the Court held in a 5-4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This is progress; however, the fight is far from over. This positive piece of our history is not an excuse to ignore what must still be achieved. We must continue to recognize the discrimination that gay people in our country are subject to every day and fight for LGBT rights and true equality.
The production will be performed Thursday, March 31 at 5PM; Friday, April 1 at 7PM; and Saturday, April 2 at 7PM. Admission is FREE for everyone, but donations are encouraged--all proceeds will be given to a local charity.
The production will be performed Thursday, March 31 at 5PM; Friday, April 1 at 7PM; and Saturday, April 2 at 7PM. Admission is FREE for everyone, but donations are encouraged--all proceeds will be given to a local charity.
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