Follow-up to the "Laramie Project" opens worldwide

The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Center at Brookdale Community College was one of 146 theaters in the US, Spain, Australia, Great Britain, Hong Kong, and Canada that hosted "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later/Epilogue" on Monday night, reports the Ashbury Park Press.



The play is a follow-up to "The Laramie Project," about Matthew Shepard, the homosexual University of Wyoming student who was beaten and left for dead, tied to a fence in Laramie. He died a few days later on Oct. 12, 1998 from his injuries at a hospital, at the young age of 21.

The new play consists of monologues about the aftermath of the murder. The Tectonic Theater Project, who authored the play, went to Laramie ten years after Matthew Shepard's tragic death and interviewed residents, Judy Shepard (Mathew's mother), and Matthew's killers Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson.