Laramie Project Reflection

Over the course of Dramatic Literature, we read and explored many important issues through literature. A moment that I found particularly powerful is when we read The Laramie Project and created interviews on the truth in drama through the production of our own documentary theater. My group conducted an interview on the question: is it okay for guys to sleep around, but not girls? In conducting the interview, the responses we got were overall the same. Many of the people we interviewed responded that it’s not okay for guys to sleep around, but not girls. If a guy and a girl want to sleep around a lot, they both should be seen in the same way. The girl should not be the only one to be looked down upon because she did this and that with multiple guys. Furthermore, these ideas should be double standards.
Documentary theater is a dramatic presentation in a form of words and actions. From reading the documentary theater piece The Laramie Project, I learned the tolerance that people have about homosexuality in the town of Laramie and how that can even relate to today’s society. In the play, Matthew Shepard was murdered because he was …show more content…
It can be used in different meaningful ways. There is a lot of power in that can portray how someone is feeling and with that comes exploring the truth about humanity. The way in which performance is analyzing humanity and human truth is by making us look at situation and think about what is happening. It allows us to imagine what we could become and to have awareness of ourselves and the changes we need to make. For example, an important human truth in a short story we read called Manifesta to Young Women is to be who you want to be, don't let anyone tell you anything. In the short story, the author uses point of view to examine this. It is written in a second and third person point of view and clearly portrays this human truth about