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...Famous for picketing Matthew W. Shepard??s funeral, the group also holds anti-gay protests at productions of “The Laramie Project”—a play based on Shepard??s murder—and the funerals of AIDS victims. Recently, they have begun demonstrating at soldiers’ funerals across the country, saying that their deaths are evidence of “God’s judgment” of America...
...core when a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, was found severely beaten nearby. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production, which ran at the Agassiz Theatre this past weekend, details the reactions and thoughts of Laramie’s citizens in the aftermath of Shepard??s death. Interviews conducted by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project in Laramie—as well as statements made during the trials of the accused murderers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson—comprise the entirety of the script. Each actor played multiple characters...
...A.R.T.) who “earmarked me as a student that he wanted to be a little more invested in.” Damon was an understudy in one of Wheeler’s productions at the A.R.T. before going on to act in his student production of Sam Shepard??s “Icarus’s Mother...
...Shepard??s A Lie of the Mind is a play about delusion. It’s difficult to write a play about delusion, and it’s equally tricky to stage one. It’s usually not too hard to get an audience to relate to a story about sane characters in normal situations, but anybody who stages a play about delusion doesn’t have the benefit of that automatic connection with the audience. Instead, that connection has to be established by the company in other ways: by keeping the play?...
...most of its company in a play that was grounded in sanity and realism. But watching them take on A Lie of the Mind only emphasized that many of its actors were still learning how to make complicated characters believable, and that together they could not effectively elucidate Shepard??s complex themes...