Well, it seems as if my Flickr ticker on the blog has yielded another loose Laramie narrative running free, this time in Italy. The photo you see here (and which showed up on my blog a couple weeks ago) is from a concept performance called Moring Has Broken- Una Vita Spezzata, which debuted in Firenze, Italy back in November around the same time that we were having Thanksgiving back stateside. The performing company described it as a "reportage" moments and excerpts from both The Laramie Project and Judy Shepard's book The Meaning of Matthew.
As you can see from the photo at left, the staging is extremely minimalistic, it focuses on the abstract, and... well, it's in Italian. (If my Latin doesn't fail me, that sign says "The shining lights of Laramie.) Unfortunately, I can't find any information about the content or staging of the performance, so I can't really speculate about the content. I'm fairly intrigued, however, by the idea. By calling this a "reportage" they claim to be relaying news in an abstract sense, but their main texts are a memoir and a play. So, if anything, it's a reportage of first-hand accounts, creatively rethought. I wish I could find a little video clip of this, but there's nothing up on that, either.
There are, however, some nice stills of the performance if you want to get a sense of it. You can view most of the set on a Flickr Photostream here, including a poster for the event, but if you're the sort that prefers your Internet searching to have a soundtrack, someone involved with the production set them up as a slide show with some old school Cat Stevens as a YouTube video.
And, there is contact information via a Facebook event if you'd like more information here (and have better Italian skills than I do.)
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