The Theater of War Quotes

“No one gets closer to words, and to the impulses behind them, than actors and directors working intensely on a play. The main difference between a translator and a director, when it comes to performed texts, is that a translator has only words at his disposal, while a director can employ the entire theatrical palette of lights, movement, sound, costumes, speech/ diction, and bodies moving through space in order to transform words on a page into a production on a stage. As I worked on Euripides’s Bacchae, I soon came to realize that I was a director and a translator—an intermediary between ancient plays and audiences—and that directing and translating were one and the same.”
― Bryan Doerries, The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today

“According to a 2012 Veterans Affairs study, an average of twenty-two U.S. veterans take their own lives each day. That’s almost one suicide per hour.”
― Bryan Doerries, The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today