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A review by lelex
The Laramie Project and the Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Leigh Fondakowski, Tectonic Theater Project, Moisés Kaufman
4.0
Reading this was a whole lot in every single way. It made me real emotional in ways I both expected and didn't, but it was masterfully done. I'd love to see it in actual play version at some point in my life. I'm glad I read the 10 years later version too, because that was revelatory. Especially in the folklore sense of how rumors about terrible small town events morph and change over the years.
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"If that's where you want to live, do it. I mean, imagine if more gay people stayed in small towns."
"Unitarians are by and large humanists, many of whom are atheists. I mean - we're, you know, we're not even sure we're a religion."
"Like people say things to me like "Why do you wear that thing on your head? Like when I go to the grocery store, I'm not looking to give people Islam 101, you know what I mean? So I'll be like, We'll it's a part of my religion and they'll be like - this is the worst part 'cause they're like, "I know it's part of your religion, but why?" And it's - how am I supposed to go into the whole doctrine of physical modesty and my own spiritual relationship with the Lord, standing there with my pop and chips? You know what I mean?"
"My secret hope was that they were from somewhere else that then of course you can create that distance. We don't grow children like that here. Well, it's pretty clear that we do grow children like that here."
"When we got to the Albany Country Courthouse, Fred Phelps was already there." "But so was Romaine Peterson."
"Yeah, this twenty one year old little lesbian is ready to walk the line with him."
Aaron McKinney: He is gonna die for sure?
Rob Debree: There is no doubt that Mr. Shepard is going to die.
"May you live a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it."
Greg Pierotti: Well, Aaron, you brutally murdered her son.
Aaron McKinney: (Conceding) Yeah, I know.
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"If that's where you want to live, do it. I mean, imagine if more gay people stayed in small towns."
"Unitarians are by and large humanists, many of whom are atheists. I mean - we're, you know, we're not even sure we're a religion."
"Like people say things to me like "Why do you wear that thing on your head? Like when I go to the grocery store, I'm not looking to give people Islam 101, you know what I mean? So I'll be like, We'll it's a part of my religion and they'll be like - this is the worst part 'cause they're like, "I know it's part of your religion, but why?" And it's - how am I supposed to go into the whole doctrine of physical modesty and my own spiritual relationship with the Lord, standing there with my pop and chips? You know what I mean?"
"My secret hope was that they were from somewhere else that then of course you can create that distance. We don't grow children like that here. Well, it's pretty clear that we do grow children like that here."
"When we got to the Albany Country Courthouse, Fred Phelps was already there." "But so was Romaine Peterson."
"Yeah, this twenty one year old little lesbian is ready to walk the line with him."
Aaron McKinney: He is gonna die for sure?
Rob Debree: There is no doubt that Mr. Shepard is going to die.
"May you live a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it."
Greg Pierotti: Well, Aaron, you brutally murdered her son.
Aaron McKinney: (Conceding) Yeah, I know.