The Sirens of War

How can the ancient texts help us understand trauma?

Sophocles wasn’t simply a playwright. He served as a general in the Peloponnesian War

The visible [and invisible] wounds produced by battle

Doerries has recruited a band of stars to participate: Adam Driver, Paul Giamatti, Jesse Eisenberg. Tonight’s big name is The Good Wife’s Zach Grenier reading Philoctetes with rising star Marjolaine Goldsmith.

Theater of War’s collaboration with The Nantucket Project carries on this fall. We’ll unpack the trauma that lies beneath.