Quinnipiac and Veterans Pair for Powerful 'Gathering Shells' at Lwt
New Haven Register › March 13, 2008
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It's been 30 years since most of them have come home from the Vietnam War, but that war keeps raging in their heads and hearts, spilling over in what one veteran calls "bad DNA" to affect family and friends everyday in ways that only those who've experienced it can relate to.
It's called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- PTSD -- and its effects are at the core of the play, "Gathering Shells," a collaboration between the Homefront Theater of the West Haven Veteran's Center and the Quinnipiac University Theater for Community, which runs Wednesday through March 4 at Long Wharf Theatre's Stage II.See the full content of this document
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Quinnipiac and Veterans Pair for Powerful 'Gathering Shells' at Lwt
The vets involved in the drama are all retired on disability, struggling with the insidious effects PTSD has and can have on maintaining a job, sustaining a marriage, or turning off the inner voices -- that was, until they discovered a release in drama therapy.
Vet Allan Garry co-wrote the script wit...See the full content of this document
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