Word: shepards
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...month after the murder of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten and tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyo., in October 1998, the orgy of media coverage and national soul searching over this horrific hate crime was beginning to die down. But just then the beleaguered town of 27,000 got another influx of visitors. They were actors from New York City who had cast themselves in new roles--as reporters. With tape recorders in hand (and working in pairs at first, in case there was any trouble), they fanned out across the community to interview people affected...
That difference is what Moises Kaufman is exploring. The Venezuelan-born playwright and director used a similar technique in his last play, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, drawing dialogue primarily from historical writings and transcripts. In the Shepard case, he saw a "watershed" contemporary event and enlisted members of his Tectonic Theater Project to help develop a stage work from it. The actors found the townspeople bruised by the media yet surprisingly willing to talk. "What helped was that we were clearly not experts and were groping our way," says cast member Greg Pierotti. The interlopers...
...years in the areas of workplace discrimination, hate crimes legislation and political activism. However, the march had a more somber side; it also commemorated individuals who have been victims of hate crimes. Two of the most poignant moments during the afternoon were the appearances of the parents of Matthew Shepard, a gay student killed in Wyoming, and nephew and sister of James Byrd Jr., an African-American who was murdered in Texas. They urged the marchers to speak out for the peaceful acceptance of diversity in America...
...could be enough. General Mills is re-examining cereal boxes, Kodak has ditched the black-box camera, Swingline has streamlined its standard stapler. Any company without in-house talent is reaching for a hot design consultant. "Manufacturers recognize that consumers are looking for more than functional benefits," says Barry Shepard, co-founder of SHR Perceptual Management, the design consultancy that helped conceive the Volkswagen Beetle. "A product that matters needs to say something about the person who owns...
Austin (John C. Reilly) is a pulled-together Hollywood screenwriter; his brother Lee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a slobbish small-time burglar. If you think you know these guys, think again. By play's end, Shepard has wreaked havoc with stereotypes and with plenty more. In this smashing Broadway revival, his 20-year-old drama proves timeless--a fierce, funny and frightening take on sibling rivalry. Or is it about two sides of the same person? Even the casting (ideal, as seen) begs the question: the two actors--both familiar from the films Boogie Nights and Magnolia--will rotate...