This is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. For years, theater director Bryan Doerries has led an innovative public health project that produces ancient tragedies for current and returned soldiers, addicts, tornado and hurricane survivors, and a wide range of other at-risk people in society.

The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked.

This title has been selected for First Year Experience reading by the following schools: Tarrant County College— Trinity River and Knox College.

The book, The Theater of War: What Ancient Tragedies Can Teach Us Today [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN# 9780307949721 in Paperback by Bryan Doerries may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.