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Theatre isn't just about entertainment; it's a powerful alarm clock for the soul. What live production impacted you personally? Comment below! Learn more about our theatre company at https://bit.ly/49Jk0h5

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Andrew J. Zwerneman

Cana Academy President/HISTORY250 Narrator

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Part of the power of the wake-up is that theater is personal, that is in person. The word person comes from the Greek for mask. The original actors wore masks, so that the person/mask mediated between the audience and the actor, between the audience and the playwright. The Greeks called their experience catharsis. The theatrical experience purged what prevented the people from seeing and feeling what they ought to see and feel and freed them, moved them, experience more of the heart of their humanity, what they ought to hold in common. McLean calls our experience a wake-up: before we experience a great stage performance we are more or less asleep to what we ought to see and feel. Awake, we see and feel more of what we ought to experience.

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