1. In the staging notes, the author describes the set of The Laramie Project as what?
(a) A church
(b) A medieval hut
(c) A performance space
(d) A town square

2. What Brecht essay does the author discuss in the Introduction?
(a) The Street Scene
(b) Guerrilla Theater
(c) The Epic Theater
(d) Propaganda in Theater

3. At what theater did The Laramie Project first perform in New York?
(a) The Al Hirschfield Theatre
(b) The Ethel Barrymore Theatre
(c) The St. James Theatre
(d) The Union Square Theatre

4. According to the author in the Introduction, contemporary “theater has too often remained entrenched in the nineteenth-century traditions of” what?
(a) Drama and exaggeration
(b) Realism and naturalism
(c) Religion and politics
(d) Manners and politeness

5. What is the name of the sect that had a standoff with the FBI and AFT in Waco, Texas?
(a) Al Qaeda
(b) The Divinity Project
(c) The Branch Davidians
(d) The Lord’s Children

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the Introduction, when he and the members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, they did not know that they would devote how much time to the project?

2. What book did Matthew Shepard’s mother author discussing Matthew’s murder?

3. The waitress Debbie claims to have been born in what year in Act 1?

4. What is the name of Matthew Shepard’s younger brother?

5. Where did The Laramie Project initially open?

(see the answer key)

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