How will the Iraq War change our theater?
A whole new generation of veterans are coming home right now, and they are bringing scores of new writers with them. It's time we start paying attention to these new voices.
Smith Magazine has been working hard this week to share new veteran voices. They just featured a long interview with playwright Sean Huze.
While exploring his new projects, this young writer explained how he learned how to tell his own story, despite the fact that "as veterans we often get our experience defined for us."
The story opened up a whole new world of veteran writers that I never knew existed. Check them out...
"In the past two years, he’s penned two raved-about plays drawn from his military experience, The Sandstorm and Weasel. He recently formed an all-veterans theater company in Los Angeles, VetStage, which boasts 22 members, including vets from Iraq and Afghanistan."
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