The Laramie Project

By Allyson
The Laramie Project is another production coming to Kent State University Trumbull Theatre this October. This one however, is actually the sequel. If you don't know about the Laramie Project, it's the story about a young man named Matthew Shepherd who was assaulted and tied to a fence and left to die. The sequel looks at the town and its inhabitants ten years later. There's a lot of talk about the town trying not to be defined by the crime that made it popular. At any rate, my art looks at the idea that the fence was removed and afterward there was no place for people to go and mourn.