The Laramie Project (DVD)

Set in small town Laramie, Wyoming, this movie is based on over 400 hours of interviews, undertaken by eight members of the New York’s Tectonic Theatre Project. They spent over 2 years recording these interviews with the hope of producing a play composed from the original words of the towns people, with actors playing the roles of real people. In October 1998 21 year old Matthew Shepard was taken from a bar by two young men, put in a truck and driven out to a field where he was tied to a post, robbed and repeatedly tortured. He lay there for 18 hours before being discovered by a cyclist and taken to hospital. He was in a coma for five days before he ...