Moisés Kaufman’s and The Tectonic Project’s reality-based, hate-crime docudrama of a young gay student’s brutal murder searches for answers about our nation’s responsibility and values.
In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a young gay student from the University of Wyoming was severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence just outside the small town of Laramie Wyoming. Shepard’s brutal attack and consequential death because of his homosexuality led the national media to portray Laramie as a breeding ground for ignorance and intolerance. Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theatre Project journeyed to Laramie to discover for themselves Laramie’s true identity. Through the voices of the townspeople, The Laramie Project deconstructs the monolithic, media-assembled image of Laramie, revealing a complicated and complex character, not just of the small Wyoming town, but also of America itself.
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Moisés Kaufman first received international acclaim for his Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. He subsequently wrote the deeply affecting play The Laramie Project about reaction to the brutal murder of gay university student Matthew Shepard, and directed Doug Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about East German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, I Am My Own Wife, for which he received a Tony nomination for best director. He is also a playwright, director, and founder of Tectonic Theatre Project.
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 Raimondo Genna is a PhD candidate who received his M.A. in Theatre at San Diego State University. Mr. Genna’s directorial credits include All My Sons (UCSD), N. Richard Nash’s Echoes and Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden (Stone Soup Theatre Company). Other directing credits include: (SDSU) Macbeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Deep and One for the Road, and Associate Director on The Kentucky Cycle (Nick Reid, Director); Talk to Me Like the Rain, Let Me Listen, and A Thing of Beauty (Mesa College); and assistant director for The Weir with Joe Hardy (Old Globe Theatre).
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Wed Nov 19 at 7:00 pm OPENING
Thur Nov 20 at 8:00 pm
Fri Nov 21 at 8:00 pm
Sat Nov 22 at 2:00 pm MATINEE
Sat Nov 22 at 8:00 pm CLOSING
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Located at: The Arthur Wagner Theatre (GH 157)
Limited Seating and No Late Seating
Parking Passes Required: Monday through Friday. Weeknight passes are $2 per vehicle from the vending machines located in the UC San Diego Theatre District/La Jolla Playhouse parking lots and entry display case. Please remember your parking space number. You will need it to purchase your parking pass.
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Parking Passes Not Required: Saturdays and Sundays
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Advance tickets for this production are available Monday-Friday, noon to 6 pm by calling the Box Office at 858.534.4574 or in person at the Theatre District’s Central Box Office at the Sheila & Hughes Potiker Theatre.
At-the-Door tickets, if available, can be purchased one hour before show time at the performing theatre’s box office at The Arthur Wagner Theatre (GH 157)
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Students: $4
All Others: $5
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