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TED Talks: Season 2018

2018x168 Oskar Eustis: Why theater is essential to democracy
TV-PG

  • 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z on YouTube
  • 15m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Truth comes from the collision of different ideas, and theater plays an essential role in showing us that truth, says legendary artistic director Oskar Eustis. In this powerful talk, Eustis outlines his plan to reach (and listen to) people in places across the US where the theater, like many other institutions, has turned its back — like the deindustrialized Rust Belt. "Our job is to try to hold up a vision to America that shows not only who all of us are individually, but that welds us back into the commonality that we need to be," Eustis says. "That's what the theater is supposed to do."
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