BYÂ CARRIE ANTLFINGER
A group of Milwaukee-area actors started workshops in which veterans depict conflict-heavy scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, aimed at helping the former service members deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction and reintegration issues, and mental health problems.
“One of the reasons that the Shakespeare works so well is … it’s this language that just holds big emotion,” said actress and project director Nancy Smith-Watson. “It elicits it but it also holds it, the metaphor just enables a lot of emotion to be put on them.”
The free program is called “Feast of Crispian,” from a rallying speech Henry V gives in the play named for him before a battle in which his forces were outnumbered. It includes the famous “band of brothers” reference.
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