The Syria Trojan Women: Rethinking the public with therapeutic theater

What is it about?

"The Syria Trojan Women" is a therapeutic theater project created by Syrian female refugees in Jordan. In performance, varied understandings of the self became platforms for new understandings of the nation. In the process, these artists/refugees troubled the boundaries between the private and the public, potentially creating a new public sphere that is not only revolutionary in its critique of entrenched political power but in its reformulation of the idea of the public itself.

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Why is it important?

The potential for reimagining social structure is implicit in therapeutic theater, which helps participants—both actors and audience—to process past trauma through acts of creation and sharing. Syria post-conflict will be influenced by the creative imagining its people engage in now, whether in or outside its national borders.

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