In a 24 hour period, over one hundred theatre companies worldwide will take part in a historic reading of the epilogue to the seminal work, The Laramie Project to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death.

On October 6th of 1998 Matthew Shepard was beaten and left to die tied to a fence in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. He died 6 days later. His murder became a watershed historical moment in America that highlighted the violence and prejudice lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
people face.

A month after the murder, the members of Tectonic Theater Project travelled to Laramie and conducted interviews with the people of the town. From these interviews they wrote the seminal play, The Laramie Project, which they later made into a film for HBO. The work has been seen by more than 50 million people in the US alone. Recognised as a modern classic, it is one of the most acclaimed and frequently staged plays of the past 10 years.