[Unedited] Bryan Doerries with Krista Tippett
b'\\u201cRemember,\\u201d Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, \\u201cyou are not alone in this room \\u2014 and you are not alone across time.\\u201d With his public health project, Theater of War, he is activating an old alchemy for our young century. Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings and callings that we aren\\u2019t able to muster in our official places now. It\\u2019s an embodiment of the good Greek word catharsis \\u2014 releasing both insight and emotions that have had no place to go, and creating an energizing relief. And it is now unfolding in the \\u201camphitheater\\u201d of Zoom that Sophocles could not have imagined.'