War does not have a woman’s face

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On stage, women transformed by war. The Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich — 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature — collects the testimonies of Soviet female fighters from World War II. Julie Deliquet, newly appointed director of Théâtre National de La Colline, gives voice to their stories in a vibrant chorus that resonates with those of all women, of all wars. In spring 1975, in a Soviet communal apartment, a young journalist gathers the accounts of women from across the Soviet Union who, as teenagers, joined the fight against the armies…