The Laramie Project

Overall, I thought that The Laramie Project performed by Ardsley High School was a good play. I was interested, however, in the selection of play that AHS chose to put on. I thought, wouldn't people who are against gay-rights object to the performance of this play. It was also interesting how it was performed. My brother and I had seats on stage, on Thursday night. Never has AHS done a play with seats on the stage for the people to sit in. When the actors were speaking, they often were facing us but were often facing away from us. The director may have done this on purpose, though. The play was kind of like a documentary acted out on a stage. It was very intriguing to hear how the different people of Laramie, Wyoming felt about the death of a homosexual boy whose name was Matthew Shephard. In my opinion, the best parts of the play were the "action" scenes, when the story of Mattew was explained and also when the convicts were on trial. Every actor in the play had multiple parts, which was necessary but also sometimes confusing to tell which character was speaking. My favorite character of the play was probably the boy biker (who was played by a girl) who had found Mattew Shephard on the side of the road, practically already dead. This biker questions, "Why had god chosen me of all people to find this poor boy?" I do not understand how people could be so hurtful to a person just because thay are born homosexual. This play taught me of the realizations that are happening to people just because of which gender they like. Maybe if anti-gay people see the play, they might change their minds about their beliefs.