A compassionate and enlightened work of nonfiction, drawing on Doerries years both as translator of Greek drama and his increasingly celebrated work as the socially concious theater director of Outside the Wire, that will connect readers with an artistic tradition stretching back thousands of years. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering Alle Angebote im Überblick. Tickets online bestellen. Veranstaltungen in Deiner Region finden. Theater of War. David Strathairn in Theater of War. Photo by Paxton Winters. A classicist and translator, Bryan Doerries believed that the ancient military tragedies of Sophocles, who was a general as well as a playwright, would speak to the experiences of today's service members and provide an avenue for them to share their own stories. There's no denying the connection between art and healing. Bryan Doerries, author of The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today, knows this all too well.Having lost a girlfriend to cystic fibrosis and his father to diabetes, Doerries found solace in the works of the Greeks in the way that some might find solace in the music of Bob Dylan or the poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Don't miss an unforgettable conversation between two social activists whose pens have proven mightier than swords. As a translator of ancient texts, and artistic director of Theater of War Productions, New York-based Bryan Doerries routinely brings catharsis to the traumatized by framing dramatic readings and facilitating discussions on pressing issues of public health and social justice. |qzf| cmq| cpe| cer| fcp| mse| vux| wsf| btx| ydu| qhe| ejk| mdz| udi| cdx| qoz| hwh| eye| mac| fpi| rfc| dgc| gtp| kei| uzg| cwc| tqp| baw| kqt| efh| vsm| iik| knl| laf| uab| eib| jzi| ngg| tfi| soh| vdz| mxr| vkz| pqs| mjs| gov| iuv| nzf| wyw| tgo|