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4. Overarching theme: "War on Terror" has been overdone, though "Age of Liberty" has not yet sunk in.
Although they come from widely different times and places, the artists in this show share a theme: war and its horrors.
The war on terror has become a theme war, like similar "wars" on crime, poverty or drugs: fashionable and im portant, but unwinnable in the sense that wars are supposed to be won.
Beautifully directed by Miguel Sapochnik, The Battle of the Bastards took the simple theme "war is hell" and paid homage to everything from the opening moments of Saving Private Ryan to Akira Kurosawa's Ran, which features probably the greatest battle sequence ever filmed, a six-minute depiction of the horror and futility of combat in which the only sound comes from Tôru Takemitsu's score.
Like the stories, the Moth's format is both fluid and highly structured: half a dozen people are asked to tell stories onstage before an audience on a given theme: "War Stories," for example, or "the Seven Deadly Sins" or "Border Patrol: An Evening of Journeys Through Customs".
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With Brecht, it's all the big themes: war, peace, wealth, poverty, justice, class, exploitation.
While most of the songs sound vintage, the themes — war, poverty, xenophobia — are all too resonant in today's age of anxieties.
And behind all of it are the reverberations of deeper themes: war and war's legacy, the sea, the land, the future.
The themes — war's attractive and destructive power; the thin line between comradeship and antagonism; the foot soldier's very narrow, very intense view — are not particular to Iraq, but universal.
For example, Fox News has waged a cartoonish, Russian-themed war on "czars," playing up jingoism and personal smears.
Another time, her theme was war.
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