The Stan Turner Show 03/15/2014
Mar 17, 2014, 07:36 PM
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The theme is war. The History Theatre is now featuring two plays on that subject.
"The Things They Carried"
Based on the quintessential book about the Vietnam experience, The Things They Carried is the powerful telling of a soldier’s journey from his innocent years in a small town in western Minnesota, to the jungles of Vietnam as a young American soldier, and back again.
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"Lonely Soldiers"
This provocative and timely play is based on interviews with soldiers stationed on the front lines in Iraq; these are the real words of eight battle-tested women warriors recounting their traumatic experiences on battlefield and in the barracks, and their personal journeys toward recovery and justice.