And i think it is important to honor the tradition of speaking verse and poetry and giving the audience poetry that has music to it. But i think it is important not to alienate the audience and declaim that poetry, but to find a way that it is also contemporary communication. The way the play articulates is it talks about how there is a voice inside of your head. That voice is you. But you have all of these other voices colliding in on it. The voices of your parents, your husband, the people in your community telling you what you should be doing. So, she has to stop hearing those voices of other people and hear, really, if i am left to myself, what do i want for myself . One of the most effective things about the show is first sort of 12 or 15 minutes, you meet evan. You see him give his first monologue and sing his first song, you get an idea of who this kid is and how deep in a hole he is, and how in need of some sort of savior he is. You really understand why he falls into this ligh
And i think it is important to honor the tradition of speaking verse and poetry and giving the audience poetry that has music to it. But i think it is important not to alienate the audience and declaim that poetry, but to find a way that it is also contemporary communication. The way the play articulates is it talks about how there is a voice inside of your head. That voice is you. But you have all of these other voices colliding in on it. The voices of your parents, your husband, the people in your community telling you what you should be doing. So, she has to stop hearing those voices of other people and hear, really, if i am left to myself, what do i want for myself . One of the most effective things about the show is first sort of 12 or 15 minutes, you meet evan. You see him give his first monologue and sing his first song, you get an idea of who this kid is and how deep in a hole he is, and how in need of some sort of savior he is. You really understand why he falls into this ligh
That was a horrible, horrible day. Wait a minute. Im not finished, fake news. That was a horrible day. The same level as neonazis . President trump i will tell you something i watched this very closely, much more closely than you people watched it. You had a group on one side that was bad and a group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that. I will say it right now. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very violent. Go ahead. Do you think what you call the altleft is the same as neonazis . President trump all of those people excuse me i have condemned neonazis. I have condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neonazis, believe me. Not all of those people were White Supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. Lee. You take a look at some of the groups and you see and you know it if you were hone
That was a horrible, horrible day. Wait a minute. Im not finished, fake news. That was a horrible day. The same level as neonazis . President trump i will tell you something i watched this very closely, much more closely than you people watched it. You had a group on one side that was bad and a group on the other side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say that. I will say it right now. You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very violent. Go ahead. Do you think what you call the altleft is the same as neonazis . President trump all of those people excuse me i have condemned neonazis. I have condemned many different groups, but not all of those people were neonazis, believe me. Not all of those people were White Supremacists by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of the statue of robert e. Lee. You take a look at some of the groups and you see and you know it if you were hone
We have four scholars here today well placed to pick up these themes from, intriguingly, different kinds of angles and backgrounds. Let me go ahead and introduce them. To my left is henry cole, an assistant professor at yale where he holds appointments in the medical school and History Department. He is also on the faculty of cognitive science. He is working on what will be a terrific book on the history of mind and Brain Science in the late 19th century currently titled other mines other minds. David is the author of storytelling and science, rewriting oppenheimer and the nuclear age. Just out, his attitudes towards he studies attitudes towards studying science in the modern united states, he is interested in nuclear history, environmental history, and the history of energy. He is currently working on a book about the way that Rachel Carson and other in other contemporary authors have shaped views on environmentalism. Andrew is a professor at harvard. He is especially interested in en