Theater Made Him Less Aggressive
Theater and acting in plays and playwrights gave Adam a medium to express himself. He told NPR how he was able to use language to express himself and not aggression. “I noticed in myself how, when I was able to like put things into words that I would be less aggressive. And the first people that I thought of, as I thought of all the time at that time, was the people that I served with.”
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One of the first plays performed for troops through his foundation was a play called China. Laura Linney read it. The play was about an employer reprimanding a female employee for not wearing a bra and not following a dress code. While a male Marine said he didn’t like that part of the play, female Marines were actually coming out of the same performance, saying how they loved that monologue in particular.