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The Theatre of War
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us TodayBy Bryan DoerriesNarrated by Adam DriverLength5h 48m
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A compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction that 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 part of a timeless process.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (1.5K)
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Psychology, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byAdam Driver
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 22, 2015
LanguageEnglish
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