The Laramie Project - Kathmandu

Theater gripped me in its paws once again... After going to see the premiere, I met with the producer, Deborah, and she told me they zere short on people and asked me to join in some minor scenes. It became two quite intense weeks of performances, new encounters, palm readings, pictures and video taking, stress throughout a beautiful, though sad story...



This docudrama performed by One World Theater in Kathmandu in March 2015 tells the true story of Mathew Shepard, a young gay man, who on October 7, 1998 was savagely beaten and left to die on a fence in Laramie, Wyoming. A month after the crime, members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled from New York City to Laramie and, in six trips over a year and a half, conducted over 200 interviews with local residents. These interviews and other found texts, including the actors’ own journal entries, became the enacted script. Considered a “hate crime,” the event galvanized the American public and this small Western community and raised important questions about tolerance and how we raise our children.



The Laramie Project is one of the most produced and widely acclaimed plays across the American Theater circuit. And now it came to the Nepali Theater scene, produced by One World Theater and jointly directed by Deborah Merola and Divya Dev, starring celebrated Nepali Theater artists like Rajkumar Pudasaini, Divya Dev, Shanti Giri, Sulakchyan Bharati etc. It played at the Theater Village, Lazimpat, Kathmandu in March 2015.