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AUDIENCE GUIDE 4 PART 1: the an Epilogue Audience guide • pArt 1: PREPARING TO SEE THE EPILOGUE tHe LArAMie prOJect: ten YeArS LAter AN EPILOGUE PHOTO : TIM CHESNUT INSIDE THIS GUIDE Overview of the Epilogue . .3 . Previewing the Script . 6. Guidelines for Discussion . .4 . When Events Become Lightning Rods . 7. Facts and Rumors: Activating Pre-Existing Knowledge . 5. Dealing with Controversy . .8 . The Meaning of Matthew . .5 . The Road to Laramie: 10 Activities . 9. Tectonic Theater Project gratefully acknowledges the Rockefeller Foundation, Time Warner and HBO for their generous support of this Audience Guide. TECTONIC THEATER PROJECT intrOductiOn tO tHiS guide FRIEDMAN KEN On October 12, 2009, audiences in Between now and October 12, this It’s a fallacy to try to define Web guide will be updated and more than 130 cities in the United expanded weekly to include: “Laramie the way one would describe States and abroad will attend the • Background on the town of an individual. There are 27,000 Laramie and on The Laramie premiere of The Laramie Project: Project people in Laramie. There are at • Brief history of Tectonic Ten Years Later — An Epilogue . Theater Project and description least 27,000 Laramies. of its unique process of creating This publication is designed to innovative, cutting-edge theater —MOISÉS KAUFMAN”, CREATOR OF using interviews and other THE LARAMIE PROJECT enhance audience members’ documentary elements • Information essential to experience at the theater; offer understanding the Epilogue, including: background and context; and guide • Timeline • Synopses students, teachers, parents and • Character identification The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later • Analysis of theatrical WRITERS Moisés Kaufman, other community members as they elements Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti, Andy Paris • Discussion questions and and Stephen Belber engage in discussion of—and activities linked to key themes draMatURG Jimmy Maize and concepts in the Epilogue, Audience Guide to The Laramie Project: reflection on—this groundbreaking to be conducted before and Ten Years Later WRITERS Bennett Singer and after audiences attend the Ellen Gordon Reeves piece of theater . October 12 performance DESIGN ShapiroDesign • Primary-source document Tectonic Theater Project analysis with links to the sources artistic DIRECTOR Moisés Kaufman • Resources, reviews and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Greg Reiner reactions 2 Audience guide tO tHe LArAMie prOJect: ten YeArS LAter—AN EPILOGUE tHe epiLOgue: OVERVIEW COURTESY MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION In October 1998, on the Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg I don’t know what the hell outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, Pierotti, Andy Paris and Stephen a 21-year-old gay college student Belber returned to Laramie to “[Matthew] was trying to do, but named Matthew Shepard was interview the same people. These savagely beaten, tied to a fence interviews focus on how Laramie I beat him up pretty bad. Think I and left to die in the frigid night. has changed: politically, socially, Characterized as a hate crime, religiously and educationally. Using killed him. the murder became a watershed “Moment Work,” Tectonic’s unique historical moment in civil rights approach to developing plays, the ”—AARON MCKINNEY , IN A in America. In the aftermath of new interviews have been crafted into TAPE -RECORDED CONFESSION TO Shepard’s death, Moisés Kaufman an Epilogue to The Laramie Project. THE ALBANY COUNTY , WYOMING , SHERIFF ’S DEPARTMENT and members of Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie; On October 12, 2009—the 11th over the course of 18 months, they anniversary of Shepard’s death— conducted more than 200 interviews The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later with residents of the town. Using will premiere simultaneously in New interview transcripts, court York, Laramie and more than 130 documents and media reportage as cities across America and around source material, they created the world. The New York production The Laramie Project, a play that will be performed by the original cast chronicles how the community members of the play and film, while grappled with the slaying. The play other participants include professional won numerous awards and is one regional theaters, community groups, of the most-performed pieces of high schools and universities. To theater in America today. It was assist artists in performing the play, made into a film for HBO and has Tectonic company members will travel been seen by more than 30 million the country prior to the October 12 people across the country. premiere and conduct workshops with partners as they set up their Ten years later, in the fall of productions. For a list of performance 2008, company members Moisés sites, visit www.laramieproject.org. Audience guide tO tHe LArAMie prOJect: ten YeArS LAter— AN EPILOGUE 3 In conjunction with the premiere, an interactive community has been GUIDELINES FOR launched at www.laramieproject.org DISCUSSION where participants can blog, upload video and photos, and share The following guidelines, developed their experiences in preparing and by the editors of Teaching Tolerance, presenting the Epilogue in their can help ensure that discussion communities. The members of of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Tectonic Theater Project will be Later remains constructive: active participants in the online • Participants should agree on a community, offering participants set of ground rules that will steer feedback and encouragement as the the discussion. Ask for input on project develops. what these principles should be. Examples include a commitment Tectonic Theater Project to confidentiality and to respect HBO and its Mission others, a ban on the use of slurs, Since its founding in 1991, and an agreement that only one One of the things that was Tectonic Theater Project has used person will speak at a time. theater to instigate national debate • When discussing issues related to “very clear from the start is the with productions including The sexual orientation, it is imperative Laramie Project. Tectonic focuses that participants and moderators question of how does one measure on watershed historical moments— resist the urge to place lesbian, times when the ideas, beliefs and gay, bisexual or transgender youth, change. Is it in the number of ideologies that are the pillars those who are perceived to be of a certain culture at a certain LGBT, or those with LGBT friends public monuments that have been time— surface around a specific or family members in the spotlight. event. “When this happens,” says Participants will enter into the con- erected? Is it in the number of laws Tectonic’s Artistic Director Moisés versation as they feel comfortable. Kaufman, “the event itself operates • It is the moderator’s role to that have been passed? Is it in the as a lightning rod that allows us establish as comfortable a set- to see clearly, for a brief time, ting as possible and to establish number of people whose views have what ideas that society is made of. a forum for a free and respectful The issues in the Epilogue are just exchange of ideas. Special care been changed? as relevant now as they were in must be taken to ensure that those 1998. These last 10 years have not holding a minority view are not —MOISÉS KAUFMAN” , CREATOR OF been the best 10 years for social vilified by those on “the other THE LARAMIE PROJECT change—not only for the gay and side.” The moderator should also lesbian community, but also for any pose questions to help keep the issue of social justice. As an artist, conversation on track. I feel like the question is: ‘What • For an activity and handout on can theater do now in America? how to discuss controversial How can we play a role in the issues—focusing on the pervasive national dialogue?’ ” putdown “You’re so gay!—visit www.tolerance.org/activity/ controversial-issues. 4 Audience guide tO tHe LArAMie prOJect: ten YeArS LAter—AN EPILOGUE FActS And ruMOrS: Understanding the events that led to a brutal killing—and assessing its legacy It’s not that I think Matt A good first step in preparing to see The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later “was meant to be murdered or that is to brainstorm with the group about prior knowledge and pre- Henderson and McKinney were conceptions about the murder of Matthew Shepard. driven by anything other than their Brainstorm and list own hatred when they killed my answers to the following questions: son. That’s certainly not the case. 1. What do you know about Matthew Shepard and the It’s just that, after things went so events surrounding his death in Laramie, Wyoming, in horribly off track that night—in October 1998? How did you learn this information? that typical local bar in that typical Name your sources. 2. Have you seen The Laramie FOR DISCUSSION American town—it seemed to all Project in play or film form? 1. What facts about Matthew What do you remember most? Shepard’s murder are reported of us that somebody, something, or Make a distinction in the discus- in this article? What controver- sion between facts and specula- sies have arisen over the facts of some power stepped in to, as much tion or rumor, and between the case? primary and secondary sources. 2. What do those who claim as possible, set things right. What have you learned about the Shepard’s murder was not a hate case since? crime believe happened? What —JUDY SHEPARD”, 3. What is a hate crime? List recent evidence exists to the contrary? MATTHEW SHEPARD ’S MOTHER , and historical examples. 3. How have Judy Shepard and Dave IN HER NEW BOOK , THE MEANING OF MATTHEW O’Malley been transformed by the LAWS AGAINST HATE: death of Matthew Shepard? How The Meaning of Matthew are they attempting to turn the Read “11 Years After Shepard’s tragedy into positive action? Death, Mom Pushes for Hate- 4.
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