A new theater project in Boulder, Colorado hopes to get communities to reach a consensus over divisive subjects through the power of music and the spoken word. “The Empathy Project” is the brainchild of Laramie native Cordelia Zars. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards starts by asking Zars how the idea came about.
Cordelia Zars: One of my best friends, Max Middleton, and I went to college together, and I’ve always been a musician, and he was always into theater. And we started directing and acting in theater together in college, and we just really clicked and loved it. And he and I sort of had a unique style of putting theater together that we loved. And so, after college, we both moved to Colorado, and we wanted to keep working together. And so we were really inspired to start kind of a bigger, longer-term artistic vision together that had a mission of bringing people together in this country who are divided.
