NCSU University Theatre presents "The Laramie Project" March 30 - April 2 & April 5 - 9 at Thompson Theatre. For tickets go to http://ticketcentral.ncsu.edu/ or call (919) 515-1100.

"The Laramie Project" by Moisés Kaufman & members of The Tectonic Theater Project - On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard’s death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event became deeply personal, and it is their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.

Adult language & situations.

3/16/2006 5:50:07 PM

Turns out he was murdered for trying to scab at a closed shop.

3/16/2006 7:59:01 PM

So is Fred Phelps going to be here?

3/16/2006 8:02:10 PM

brokeback wyoming

3/17/2006 1:21:12 AM

A very good movie, however.

3/17/2006 12:46:33 PM

It does appear that the Rev. Fred Phelps will be in attendance to protest the production.

http://www.godhatesfags.com/

Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests - http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/21/funeral.motorcyclists.ap/index.html

3/17/2006 6:00:33 PM

Tonight, bitches.

...and the next several nights.

3/30/2006 4:40:11 PM

I'd kind of like to be able to see Fred Phelps, but don't want to draw attention to him. Which would happen, because I would probably vomit.

Quote :

"Turns out he was murdered for trying to scab at a closed shop."

Is that true? I really don't know much about the situation.

4/2/2006 12:25:52 PM

rev. fred phelps was in durham when dsa performed this
i hop the media ignores him like they did then

4/2/2006 12:30:27 PM

His wife or some other whore from his church was on BBC radio a few weeks ago.

She was basically incoherent. The interviewer was actually asking her about why she believed what she believed, but she would only answer in barely related catchphrases, many of which rhymed.

4/2/2006 12:32:19 PM

^ that's funny - sounds like the approximate response you'd get from your typcial hipster leftie when quizzed why he opposes the iraq war

4/2/2006 1:47:36 PM

or from your typical right-wing partyliner on why they are for it

4/2/2006 2:26:59 PM

oh I want to see this, it's so sad

4/2/2006 3:09:24 PM

saw it this weekend. very good...

4/3/2006 9:32:25 AM

saw it last week. it was very good.

4/3/2006 10:17:18 AM

Saw it tonight. I liked it. The end with the bell tower, and the "guy" wearing the NCSU hat... I get that probably meant take what you've learned tonight and apply it where you live. Maybe getting that same message across a little more subtly would have been nice. The chick (I think she’s in my philosophy class this semester) who wore that cap did a good job. I also like the girl who wore the scarf with her line about this happened here so we are this kind of town.

The guy with the pointed hair & red shirt was also good (and was in a philosophy class I had in a previous semester). I think he ended things by saying something like make sure you tell the story right. That had been driven in hard enough the first time that I didn’t think it needed repeating.

In general, not a criticism of the play, I think its kind of silly that some people said it doesn’t bother me but I think it’s a sin, or it’s a sin & god hates it, or god loves everyone lets dress up like angels. It’s like the football player who thanks god for his win… when the other team would have done the same thing had they won. If both sides are claiming god, then you need an argument that can function without god to prove your point.

The amazing grace was a little thick too, but didn’t take away that much. The cello guy played well, occasionally to loudly to hear the actors, but looked like a bobble head. Also I don’t like the resolution was romanticizing his death. He probably wasn’t think isn’t it nice how the wind is my friend and the trees are my friends and all that the dad said, and it probably wasn’t look how the air port lights make the town sparkle like they said at the end so as to end things happily.

Some good came of it, but the play I think should have left you feeling bad, not restoring you to the okayness that you had when you first set down.

I’m glad I saw it though. On the whole it was done really well.

4/7/2006 11:28:43 PM

about how long does it last?

4/8/2006 5:04:27 PM

less than 2 hours i think... started a couple minutes late, and each intermission was a little longer than 10 mins.

4/8/2006 7:12:22 PM