Hello! Angie and Madeleine here... This is our first full day with the out of state cast members all within the Cannon household! It's a little hectic today because Susan and Kim are throwing us a "meet-the-community"/Father's Day/BIRTHDAY barbeque...so we're sweeping and organizing and cooking and decorating and getting our socializing-faces on. For anyone who isn't familiar with the play or our project this summer here is an explanation of what we are doing and our goals.
Early this year, a group of college students and local actors came together to form No Fog West Theater, a non-profit company based in Sheridan, Wyoming. Our current production is Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project.
In 1998, a University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally murdered because he was gay, completely shaking up the community of Laramie and changing the connotations of the word Laramie forever. A theater company from New York City decided to document this reaction by creating a play based on interviews with a wide variety of people from the town. They took several trips to Laramie and conducted over three hundred objective interviews. A collage of direct transcripts from these interviews became The Laramie Project.
By choosing this production for this summer, we wish to inspire an important dialogue among the people of Sheridan and Wyoming as a whole. We believe that The Laramie Project provides a pro-compassion, non-confrontational forum in which to begin such a discussion. Our company while composed of actors from all over the country, remains grounded in and sensitive to Western culture in regards to the sensitive subject matter this play brings up. Our goal is not to impose an acceptance of homosexuality but to show the consequences we all face by not condemning culturally manufactured prejudices. The Laramie Project is not the story of a gay man's death; it is the story of a town's reaction to hate.
Our production will have a seven show run the last two weeks of July at the Carriage House Theater in Sheridan. If you would like more information or would like to make a tax-deductible donation to our non-profit company please email us at nofogwest@gmail.com or send a check to
No Fog West Theater
Grace Cannon, Chair
P.O. Box 401
Big Horn, WY. 82833
and make checks payable to Tandem Productions, our umbrella organization.
LOVE,
Angie and Madeleine and No Fog West
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No Fog West Theater Company was started in December 2006 on Vassar College campus by a group of freshmen students interested in performing The Laramie Project in the summer. After that first highly positive experience, we will be going back with a new cast, this time touring a production of Talking to Terrorists throughout the Northwest in August 2008! This blog is by the cast and crew, who will share their experiences with you throughout the summer.
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No Fog West Theater: The Company 2008
Artistic Director: Max Hershenow; Production Director: Grace Cannon; Secretary: Madeleine Joyce; Stage Manager: Hilary Schwartz; Road Manager: Becky Katz; Summer 2008 Cast: Jamie Watkins, Baize Buzan, Naije Draine, Nathan Birnbaum, Grace Cannon, Madeleine Joyce, Adam Colton and Mike Marshall.
1 comment:
Sounds like an exciting undertaking. You all seem to have many roles in this endeavor -- cast members, fund raisers, director, day workers, producers ... and probably you will also become set designers, costume makers, prop finders, etc. Have a wonderful time. I am looking forward to seeing the play.
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