The Laramie Project

7/2/2026

If you're at all familiar with the television movie made about the brutal slaughter of Matthew Shepard from 2002, you'll already know why New York's Tectonic Theatre Company descended upon the town of Laramie. Home to just shy of 30,000 citizens, this town has been rocked by the recent homophobic attack on a twenty-one year old man by two young men who pistol whipped him before tying him to a fence in a nearby field and leaving him to die of his wounds and of hypothermia. The actors/writers have decided to theatrically recreate some of this story and so are travelling the length and breadth of the town seeking interviews with the residents - all whilst the town deals with it's own feelings of anger and guilt and whilst their courthouse tries the two men who are accused of perpetrating the