And I wanted Bottled Snail to take on the project because of the various human rights themes, and the fact that it’s still relevant in 2019,’ she says. ‘In America at that time there was no legislation relevant to that particular crime. ‘What came of the crime was an outcry in relation to hate crime, and eventually led to former US president Obama enacting anti-hate crime legislation, which was known as the Matthew Shepard Act, says director Nicky Neville-Jones, a Melbourne family lawyer with a background in performing theatre.
It has since become one of the most performed plays in America, and is coming to Melbourne, presented by the not-for-profit organisation Bottled Snail production company led by Victorian legal professionals. The theatre group travelled to Laramie and made a play about what happened, based on the court case transcripts and interviews with family, friends and locals. The horrendous crime, the community’s reaction and legal case that followed were captured in a moving script by the New York’s Tectonic Theater project, which became known as The Laramie Project. He died soon after being discovered the following day. On a bitterly cold night he was tied to a fence, savagely beaten and left begging for his life. In October 1998 a young gay student Matthew Shephard was lured from a bar to the outskirts of town in Laramie, Wyoming. Video of Interview with Nicky Neville-Jones - Director of The Laramie Project The true crime
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