[NEohioPAL] "The Laramie Project" Running thru October 7th.

[North Canton Playhouse]

The North Canton Playhouse, Center for the Performing Arts proudly presents the season opening production of...
 
"THE LARAMIE PROJECT"
By Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project
 
September 19th - October 7th 
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:30pm with a special candlelight vigil and performance on Tuesday, October 7th at 8:00pm
in the McManaway Studio Theatre (525 7th St. NE Adjacent to Hoover High School).
 
Tickets are $12.00 for Adults and $11.00 for Seniors and Students
 
FOR RESERVATIONS, CALL (330) 494-1613
 
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Jennifer Bernhardt
Mark Bernhardt
Brenton Cochran
Aaron Darr
Ginger Dougan
Ashley Frederick
Jenilee Grabenhorst
Andrea Hartman
Shannon Jamison
Becca Monteleone
Chris Saling
Kelly Tanner
Doug Tanner
Matthew Wilks
 
IN THIS PHOTO: (From L to R)  Becca Monteleone, Jenilee Grabenhorst, Mark Bernhardt and Kelly Tanner.
 
STORY: In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, and others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of their reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical
 experience from these interviews and their own experiences. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.


Brenton Cochran
Office Administrator
North Canton Playhouse
330-494-1693
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