Thursday, February 24, 2011
Adam Driver, From the Marines to ‘Angels in America’
NYTimes.com: "The moment that persuaded Adam Driver to pursue an acting career didn’t come when he was cast as the Leading Player in a college production of “Pippin,” or even when he was accepted to Juilliard. It happened one thankfully windy afternoon as a cloud of deadly white phosphorus — a high-powered chemical that can burn through cars — inched its way toward him and a group of fellow Marines during a mishap in a California training exercise.
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thanks for the stop and enjoyed the video. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
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What really interested me in this article was actually at the very end, the description of Driver's nonprofit Arts in the Armed Forces. There's often discussion about drama as therapy and many organizations (esp. educational theatre groups) that use drama as a catalyst for understanding, but Driver's goal of encouraging communication seems purer to me - in a culture that does everything it can to depersonalize soldiers, offering them a chance to identify with a character that is going through similar personal issues can help to (a) still recognize their individuality, but also (b) concisely summarize the problems (something playwrights do very well) and (c) spark discussion about them, thus facilitating the construction of common ground between the soldiers.
Brian... hard hitting facts and it a nice article.
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