Cry Havoc!

Stephan Wolfert left a career in the military for a life in the theatre after seeing Shakespeare's Richard III. In Cry Havoc, Wolfert recounts his own experiences of military service, weaving his personal narrative with lines from some of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches. Wolfert is the Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Veterans, and the Veterans Center for the Performing Arts and the creator of DE-CRUIT: a program to reintegrate military Veterans using classical actor training. He proposes that the military recruits citizens and trains them to kill, but asks what does the “de-cruit” process look like? How do civilians and Veterans re-learn to live together? A profoundly moving and memorable evening.