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Over the past two years, Philoctetes has received staged readings at Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, The Culture Project’s Impact Festival, and, most recently, at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. In every instance, audiences have responded profoundly to the play. People seem to recognize their fathers, uncles, lovers, and sometimes even themselves in Sophocles’ depiction of the suffering soldier. At the most recent series of readings, medical students and doctors saw their patients in Philoctetes, connecting the myth with their own experiences in hospitals and hospice wards. The medical community’s enthusiastic response confirms the play’s unique power to open crucial space for dialogue within our culture about important social issues. Far more than a play, The Philoctetes Project has become a catalyst for discussion between diverse audiences about heath care, chronic illness, and veterans returning from war. Participate |
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