{"id":3410,"date":"2017-10-18T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2023-05-22T07:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:16:31","slug":"shakespeare-unites-war-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kilde.org\/new-sincerity\/shakespeare-unites-war-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Unites War Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Johnson, founder of Shakespeare with Veterans, says there is an unexplainable power in Shakespeare\u2019s words of 400 years ago that modern language can\u2019t quite convey. War, loss, empathy, and tragedy are threads in the scripts that hit the heartstrings of many vets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we in it shall be remembered,&#8221; Shakespeare wrote in <em>Henry V, <\/em>a play that is also known for it&#8217;s prolific battle speeches. &#8220;We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some were skeptical that veterans would find this program interesting, but some neighboring organizations went ahead and joined together to make it happen, including the Louisville Vet Center and the Kentucky Shakespeare Company.<\/p>\n<p>The Shakespeare With Veterans&#8217; goal is to offer \u201cthe opportunity for camaraderie and a higher sense of purpose that represents what veterans loved most during military service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3411\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shakespearewithveterans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3411\" src=\"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/shakespearewithveterans-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Shakespeare With Veterans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vets rehearse in the local Louisville Vet Center, a haven that also provides counseling for PTSD, outreach, and referral services (like employment assistance).<\/p>\n<p>Amy Attaway, artistic director for Kentucky Shakespeare, told Huffington Post about her experience directing the vets. \u201cThey would say, \u2018this speech sounds like exactly what I would say to my soldiers in the field,\u2019 or \u2018this sounds like it could be today\u2019. Those moments have been really exciting to me\u2014new people waking up to the poetry and the power of the words. If you let yourself dig into it, you\u2019ll find whatever you\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the program&#8217;s initial launch in early 2016, the experiment has become a success. Many vets have found great joy in discovering their inner thespians, some driving 2 hours each way to attend rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/newsincerity.us\/category\/rise-up\/\">Rise up<\/a>! Hit share.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Johnson, founder of Shakespeare with Veterans, says there is an unexplainable power in Shakespeare\u2019s words of 400 years ago that modern language can\u2019t quite convey. War, loss, empathy, and tragedy are threads in the scripts that hit the heartstrings of many vets. \u201cBut we in it shall be remembered,&#8221; Shakespeare wrote in Henry V, a play that is also\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[767,768,128,769,770,771,772,773],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-resilience","category-beasts","tag-kentucky","tag-midwest","tag-military","tag-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare-with-veterans","tag-tragedy","tag-veteran","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shakespeare Unites War Vets - New Sincerity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Kentucky, combat veterans are being brought together by an unlikely source \u2014 theatre. 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