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Remember Brian Dory's likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings.

You are not alone in this room, and you are not alone across time.

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't able to muster in our official places now.

Performances of his public health project, Theatre of War,

have been some of the most generative and repeatedly surprisingly joyful experiences of my pandemic year.

This adventure began in 2008, at first bringing Greek tragedies into many modern amphitheaters where trauma is present.

Military bases and hospitals, prisons, even Guantanamo Bay.

It expanded out from there, offering suffocates and Shakespeare and the Book of Job

as crucibles for dwelling and moving forward with the particular dramas of our time,

from caregiving and addiction and partner violence to the hidden wounds of war

and open political fracture. Great actors have joined this company

from Bill Murray to Moses Ingram from Francis McDormand to Jeffrey Wright.

I sit and nod my grief, my groans pour out like water, my worst fears have happened.

My nightmares have come to life, silence and peace have abandoned me and anguish camps in my heart.

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