This month, Les Apatrides is presenting “Le Projet Laramie” at the La Chapelle theatre. Carried by the students of the teen theatre workshop, this committed show is the story of a homophobic crime that occurred in the United States in 1998.
In 1998, in Laramie, a small town in Wyoming whose motto is "Live and Let Live," a 21-year-old homosexual young man, Matthew Shepard, was brutally murdered. Three weeks later, members of the Tectonic Theater Project, a theatre company from New York went there to try to understand how an act of such violence could have been committed. Based on more than 200 testimonials a play has been written, a real theatrical documentary that the company Apatrides wanted to offer to the public of Saint-Martin.
Once again, Audrey Duputié, director and theatre teacher, entrusted the project to the young actors of her troupe. “It’s a big project for teens. I wanted them to tackle something different, to learn how to technically move from one character to another,” she explains. Indeed, the show is a choral play that features more than 200 different characters representing all segments of the population and their opinion on the drama. To “add density” and allow “the richness of generations”, the director integrated 4 adults into the play. Teenagers, meanwhile, “bring lightness” in this tragedy both theatrical and real.
The show tells this true story that shook up the United States. “It talks about exclusion; it shows how a community can be easily and freely tortured. This crime could have happened yesterday. Matthew Shepard could have been black, could have been a woman... He’s an icon.” Hence the importance for Audrey Duputié to present this show and talk about homophobia to as many people as possible, this insidious and persistent homophobia that is still so devastating.
LE PROJET LARAMIE
15/03 - 7:30pm
16/03 - 7:30pm
22/03 - 7:30pm
23/03 - 7:30pm
Théâtre La Chapelle, Orient Bay
Tickets : www.theatresxm.fr
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