By Peter Kemp
1812 Theatre
The Laramie Project
Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student was tied to a fence post and brutally murdered in a prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming in 1998 because if his sexually identity.
Shepard’s murder is one of the most well-known hate crimes in recent American history.
For The Laramie Project the Tectonic Theatre Project travelled to Laramie just four weeks after Shepard’s death, with the intent of creating a theatrical portrait of a town coming to grips with hate-fuelled violence. Over the course of a year and a half, the group interviewed over 299 people, collecting a wide array of different perspective on the crime.
The dialogue and monologue that comprise The Laramie Project are taken from these interviews, along with news reports, courtroom transcripts, and journal entries.
Season: 3 – 26 October
Bookings: 9758 3964
CPP Community Theatre
Hello Dolly
As the 19th century becomes the 20th century.
All of New York City is excited because the brash widow Dolly Gallagher Levi is in town.
Dolly makes a living through what she calls ”meddling” – matchmaking and numerous sidelines .
She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder, the well-known half a millionaire.
But it soon becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry him herself.
Horace explains to his two clerks that he is going to be married because it takes a woman to cheerfully do all the household chores.
The wo clerks decide that they needed to get out of Yonkers.
They go to New York and see the sights.
Then they meet up with two shop assistants at the upscale Harmonia Restaurant in New York city.
Season: Friday 11 October – Saturday 19 October.
