The Laramie Project Play Analysis

The Community of Laramie’s Views on Hate Crime The Laramie Project is a play about the aftermath of the people from Laramie reactions to the kidnapping and horrible death of an open gay Matthew Sheppard. Furthermore, there are various themes throughout the play but Moisés Kaufman wanted to focus on several perspectives towards homosexuality in the Laramie community at the time of Matthew’s death. The play has many themes about prejudice, hate crimes, and conflicting issues. The most significant aspect of the play was centered on the opinions and the responses of the people from the small town of Laramie, Wyoming. The different viewpoints of the death of Matthew from this small town has affected their community and how they dealt with the occurrence. Some people believed this would not happen to Matthew because he was gay. While others considered that he did not deserve this treatment because of his sexuality. The majority of the Laramie community had feelings towards this issue as if they did not want to deal with this. Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project wanted to discover how these
While Debree was investigating of Matthew’s murder case. Debree began to have another insight of homosexuals, “And we’re still going to have people who hold with the old ideals, and I was one of them fourteen months ago. I’m not gonna put up with it, and I’m not going to listen to it. And if they don’t like my views on it, fine. The door goes both ways, I already lost a couple of buddies. I don’t care. I feel more comfortable and I can sleep at night” (78). Debree’s understanding changed completely to point where he began to recognize how gay people had fears. He got a better awareness about the gay community in Laramie because how much he was involved of Matthew’s murder. The loss of Matthew made Debree changed his morals about