The Theater of War

What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today

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The Theater of War

By: Bryan Doerries

Narrated by: Adam Driver

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This compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction draws on the author's celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition. For years Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient tragedies for current and returned servicemen and women, addicts, tornado and hurricane victims, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society. Here, drawing on these extraordinary firsthand experiences, Doerries clearly and powerfully illustrates the redemptive and therapeutic potential of this classical, timeless art: how, for example, Ajax can help soldiers and their loved ones grapple with PTSD or how Prometheus Bound provides insights into the modern penal system.

Doerries is an original and magnanimous thinker, and The Theater of War - wholly unsentimental but intensely felt and emotionally engaging - is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will inspire and inform listeners, showing them that suffering and healing are both parts of a timeless process.

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A heartbreaking but ultimately heartening recount of the work done by Doerries and Theater of War to help alleviate the silent suffering of those affected by the extremes of war, tragedy, death. Theater of War utilises the power of Ancient Greek myth to illustrate that feelings associated with those aforementioned extremes transcends not only culture, but time.

The knowledge that these ancient playwrights can speak to the souls of the suffering across history and offer people today a means of communication of their experience was an astounding thing to learn.

The work that Doerries (and also Driver, whom not only lends his voice to the Doerries' words and performances of Ajax etc here, but also runs the non-profit 'Arts in the Armed Forces' (AITAF), bringing theatre to those serving in the military, much like ToW) does in not only translating these transcendent tales, but in realising their potential and spearheading their application to those who need it is inspirational.

A must read - devoid of emotional manipulation or over-sentimentality... given even more colour to its emotional gamut by Driver's performance in the audiobook, which is gut-wrenchingly honest, full of crescendo and contemplative quiet and imbued with his wealth of experience not only as an ex-marine, but also as the very fine actor he continually proves himself to be.

An incredibly important listen