Shine A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing the William and Mary Theater Department’s production of The Laramie Project, a play that tells the story of the murder of Mathew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, that took place in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming. Over the course of the next year, members of the Tectonic Theatre project travelled to Laramie six times and conducted over 200 interviews with the people living there in order to write and produce a play about how this
The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman, is centered on Laramie, Wyoming, and the social significance of Matthew Shepard's murder on October 6, 1998. A gay political science student at the University of Wyoming, Shepard is found bound to a fence after being brutally beaten unconscious. Five days later, he dies. The idea of The Laramie Project is to capture the emotions, reflections, and reactions of the people who were most closely related to this crime. Kaufman's objective is to learn through the
the people surrounding the case, be they doctors, policemen, or average citizens of the college town of Laramie, Wyoming. However, amidst the claims of “live and let live” being the local mentality, it is prominent that the town is highly divided regarding its beliefs, with the educated students of University of and the
Matthew Shepard Case Brief Facts: Twenty one year old, University of Wyoming college student, Matthew Shepard, died October 12, 1998 at 12:53 a.m. after spending five days in a comma due to massive injuries and head trauma in a robbery and hate crime assault (Matthew Shepard, 2000 [on-line]). Matthew Shepard met Aaron McKinney (22) and Russell Henderson (21) of Laramie in a local bar called Fireside Lounge. McKinney and Henderson had been drinking. The two led Shepard to believe they were gay and
Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Company, consists of both a theatrical representation and an HBO film based on the actual 1998 murder of twenty-one year old University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard. On October 6th, 1998, Mr. Shepard was bound to a fence and severely beaten and left to die in the outskirts of the small town of Laramie, Wyoming. He passed away as a result of the injuries he sustained six days later. This was a hate crime, since Matthew was targeted because he was gay. The Laramie
written by Moisés Kaufman, is a compilation of interviews by The Tectonic Theater Project, news publications, and journal entries. After the brutal murder of Mathew Sheppard in 1998. Kaufman along with his theater troupe made six visits to Laramie, Wyoming, where the murder took place, to interview people about what happened and how they felt about the crime in their community. They interviewed about two hundred people, of which about sixty were included in the play. The play showcases a small town
younger audience, most people tend to choose the movie, however, more literate people always chose the book. The Laramie Project written by Moises Kaufman is a play based off of interviews with people who experienced the devastating event in Laramie, Wyoming. A young man was beaten within an inch of death and then left to die because he was gay. The play includes interviews from a large group of locals, which provides many unique perspectives of the events. The play was then turned into a movie in 2002
eliminated the confusion of "who is who." Through the usage of the stage elements as well as the dynamics of each character, this brought about an effective plot. The first element that made the play dramatic was the sound effects. The sound of the "Wyoming wind" was constant throughout the whole play, but as emotional scenes and climaxes occurred, the sound of wind was intensely noticeable. I believe it was Misha Johnson that played the character of Matthew Shepard's good friend, as she was expressing
Wyoming-Colorado Border Wars Deep in the heart of the American West lie two of the largest, most rugged, beautiful states in the nation, both of which have long been engaged in a heated rivalry. North and South from one another, Wyoming and Colorado have been at a border war since before either even gained statehood. With 97,195 square miles, Wyoming is the 10th largest of all 50 states. While the state is vast in land, it is scarce in population. As of 2005, a mere 509,294 residents inhabit
Introduction and Overview Description of the program The proposed program is a major in Outdoor Education (OE) to be housed in the College of Education at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY. Outdoor Education is a broad and diverse field but in its most simplistic terms is a form of education that occurs outdoors. The field has strong ties to adventure, experiential, place-based, and environmental education. The OE field supports thousands of seasonal and permanent jobs nationally and statewide
known about the family from which she came. The only story of her childhood that she ever shared was of her home being destroyed by a fire (Scheer, 1). In 1902, she became Nellie Tayloe Ross after marrying a successful lawyer and future governor of Wyoming, William Bradford Ross. Nellie was a stay at home mother with their four sons; twins George and James Ambrose, Alfred, who died at the age of ten months, and William Bradford II (Mackey, 26). In 1924, just one month before the general election
such an issue to wealthy ranchers and settlers that they began to offer cash rewards for wolf pelts. This practice gave birth to a lucrative cottage industry of professional hunters and trappers. As the wolves began to move further West, and into Wyoming, they began to diminish the elk and moose population. To respond to this threat, Congress approved funding in 1914, to eliminate the native gray wolves from
Whiteout in Wyoming This article is a comical recollection of a young college student’s trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming entitled “Whiteout in Wyoming”. He uses a journal entry structure and rhetorical appeals to enable his audience to clearly perceive his perception that Wyoming is white. Through his whole vacation there is snow everywhere, and he only encounters one minority, who I kind of got the feeling that the author didn’t consider him a “real” minority, or a minor enough minority. It
effort to set an example that all fences on open range must come down (Bollinger, 81). The fencing of lands was a major problem, as agricultural producers needed open access to the limited resources, especially water. Johnson County, in northern Wyoming, was an agricultural nucleus for cattle and sheep producers who knew the lush grass and good water supply would greatly benefit their operations. Since fencing was illegal, these resources were available to everyone. Cattle operators, large and small
figured that out in 2002. The first problem they ran into was seating for spectators. The Olympic Committee turned to the University of Utah. They were going to use their stadium but it only had 32,000 seats when they needed 50,000 chairs. The university got to work and added about 18,000 seats. Then the committee realized that the athletes needed a place to stay. Again the University of Utah built all new dorms for the athlete’s village. Those are only 2 of the many problems Utah overcame to host a fantastic
Warren. Ironically, shortly after his win, Warren resigned as governor to take a position as a Wyoming Senator thus placing Barber into the governor’s spot. Any other time this might be unusual to have this happen, unless you look at those Barber knew. Governor Barber happened to be not only classmate from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania, but was friends with Dr. Charles Penrose, who was the physician who accompanied the raiders to Johnson County. Barber, was very much
John McPhee’s book Rising from the Plains takes place in Wyoming during the early 1900s. The main character, David Love takes the reader on journey through the high plains and mountain ranges of Wyoming in order familiarize the reader with the physical landscape of the state. In familiarizing the reader with the physical landscape of Wyoming Love describes his own story of how he became a geologist. Love was raised on a ranch in Wyoming. During his younger years Love was educated by his mother about
Jacques La Ramee Throughout Wyoming many landmarks are named after an early French—Canadian trapper. These landmarks include the Laramie River, the Laramie Peak , the Laramie Plains, Laramie County , Fort Laramie , the town of Fort Laramie , and the city of Laramie . Jacques LaRamee (Laramée, Laramé, Laramie , De la Ramie, de la Rame, or La Ramee it is spelled different by almost all the listed sources) was a mysterious man with obvious influence (Chittenden, 1935; Coutant, 1899; Fetter, 1982;
authority on Wyoming history ranked this event as “the most notorious event in the history of Wyoming”. Prominent men of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, their employees and hired guns from Texas, Idaho and other parts of the United States, made of this troop of men. The group of invaders disembarked the train in Casper and continued by horseback to Buffalo, Wyoming. This historic event focuses on Johnson County and the city of Buffalo. However, Cheyenne the capital city of Wyoming played a
triangular formations, when middle/high school competed in backstroke it was very hard to stay in line to avoid hitting the lane ropes. Not only were there Olympic hopefuls, but many swimmers have kept record to this day. Not just school records but Wyoming 3A state records. The following have the fastest time in the state for 3A high schools such as Guy Fulfer and Will Vietti. Both of t... ... middle of paper ... ...ay, it will truly be missed. In a year most kids will walk by asking their parents