“It Happened Here.” Voice, Otherness, and Authorship in the Tectonic Theater Project’s The Laramie Project (2000)"

In this article, I will focus almost exclusively on the first landmark play "the Laramie Project", addressing initially the issues of voice and otherness, and subsequently the related question of dramatic genre. In the final section, I will try to understand the unique combination of authorial creativity and documentary ethos that make The Laramie Project a work of grief and resilience, of rage and forgiveness, but foremost a play that seeks to establish a dialogue across a wide divide, an attempt to shed some light into the heart of the nation.