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Acclaim for
THE LARAMIE PROJECT

“The Laramie Project is a terrific piece of theater, history, and life.… There emerges a mosaic as moving and important as any you will see on the walls of the churches of the world.… Nothing short of stunning.… You should not miss a theatrical and human event that deserves standing up for, with applause, or better yet, silently, taking an important lesson profoundly to heart.”

—New York magazine

“A riveting theatrical experience.”

—Variety

“Deeply moving … [Kaufman] has a remarkable gift for giving a compelling theatrical flow to journalistic and historical material.… [The Laramie Project] is determined to find the light in an event of harrowing darkness.”

—The New York Times

“Remarkable … [a] probing and distinctive theater piece … assembled with care, compassion and dollops of comic relief.… The high-octane performances and unique staging make this a must see for any theatergoer.”

—Daily News

“Few playwrights have cut to the heart of tragedy so unerringly.”

—The Village Voice

“Brilliant … bone-hard drama [that] dares to touch the hidden wound of the American West.… Within these pages, a healing occurs.… If I could, I would stand on every street corner in America and pass this play out as a handbill for a more civil society.”

—Terry Tempest Williams, author of Leap and Refuge

“A bracing, wholly original and deeply affecting piece of theater. It radiates integrity, an aching collective need to understand incomprehensible events. It portrays an American town with grace, truth, theatrical economy, compassion, wit, despair and love. [It proves that] theater can serve as witness to our deeds. It’s we who must answer one by one, for what we all create and what we destroy together.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“An amazing piece of theater.… Out of the Shepard tragedy is wrenched art.”

—The New York Post

“A complex and ultimately optimistic portrait of a town that was challenged by the most catastrophic of events.”

—USA Today

“Sad, sober and gripping.… Something nourishing has been excavated by Kaufman and his committed collaborators from the tragedy.”

—Daily Variety

“A towering theatrical accomplishment.… [The Laramie Project is] Our Town for the new millennium, capturing from real life the same sense of humanity in the raw that Thornton Wilder did years ago with the fictional Grover’s Corner. The play moves the theater in a new and different direction.”

—San Francisco Times

“An invigorating theatrical adventure.”

—David Rothenberg

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Copyright

FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2001
Copyright © 2001 by Moisés Kaufman

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.