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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Helping Refugees Help Themselves: The Play Really is the Thing!
Description: Filmmakers Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling explore how theater heals and transforms.
Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king,” when the troubled Prince stages a play to catch a murderer. The underlying point of the play-in-the-play is that drama is an incredibly powerful force for storytelling and much else.
Fast forward to the 21st century for an amazing example of that Shakespearean wisdom. Two incredibly creative British filmmakers created something called The Trojan Women Project to use drama to help refugees from wars in the Middle East and...