374 Ancient Plays and Contemporary Theater - A New Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy (with Bryan Doerries)
The History of Literature
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Theatre of War - The Art of Imagining a Community
Tragedy can provide a vocabulary and also the energy that' in a room that empowers people to speak things that are unspeakable otherwise. Theatre of war goes specifically to communities who maybe the audience has shares something in common already. Often it involves bringing the artists back on stage and asking them questions about themselves and their process for making the work, which all of us find to be deadly and benal and soul crushing.
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