Actors from the Underground Railway Theater read  a selection from  But the Giraffe! , the curtain-raiser Tony Kushner wrote for the Broadway revival of Brundibar.  A panel discussion follows about the relationship between stress and creativity. Does creativity help people cope with stress? How does stress stimulate or impede creativity?   Panelists include Debra Wise, Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater; Dr. Michael Grodin, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights  at Boston University School of Public Health; and Guila Clara Kessous,  Carr Center’s Initiative in Theater and Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Recorded  April 22, 2012