On Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10, De-Cruit is coming to West Valley High School’s DeWild Theatre to bring their work to the Fairbanks community.
“Friday night is ‘Cry Havoc’, which is my solo show that brings together Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s veterans, specifically, and how he so perfectly spoke to the military veteran experience even 400 plus years ago, and I interweave it with my personal story,” Wolfert explained.
The following night, both Wolfert and Stern will perform a show called “Make Thick My Blood”, a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth through a trauma lens. “[Macbeth and Lady Macbeth] have this hole in their lives, perhaps several, and they’re trying to fill them, and they make horrible decisions, because that’s what trauma does. It informs the way we view the world, the way we view ourselves, the way we view others.
Wolfert explained that these shows will be followed by a discussion with the performers “so that rather than me stirring up a bunch of stuff and everybody driving home alone, we stay in the room where it happened, hold space... Dawn and I will hold space for people to allow to come up whatever needs to come up, to process.”
After the performances, starting Monday, September 12, the two will hold workshops for veterans on Mondays and Wednesdays for three weeks. “Veterans will come in,” Wolfert continued, “and they’ll work on whatever they feel they want to work on, through prompted writings, through a little bit of Shakespeare’s text, through community, through mindfulness and practices, they’ll be given skills to not only share their story, but how to recover from their story when it comes up.
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