Transcript Krista Tippett, host: “Remember,” Bryan Doerries 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, Theater of War, have been some of the 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 mini-modern-amphitheaters where trauma is present — military bases and hospitals, prisons, even Guantanamo Bay. It expanded out from there, offering Sophocles 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 Frances McDormand to Jeffrey Wright.