In October 1998 the small American town of Laramie, Wyoming, caught the attention of the world’s press when a young man was discovered bound to a fence, savagely beaten and left to die. A group of actors travelled there six times during the next eighteen months to listen to the inhabitants’ reactions. What emerged was this complex portrayal of the depths of intolerance and the heights of compassion that humanity can reach.

“This play is Our Town with a question mark, as in ‘Could this be our town?’ “ The New York Times