War doesn't have a woman's face

49 rue du Coudray, Nantes

On stage, women transformed by war. The Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich - Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 - collects the testimonies of Soviet female fighters during World War II. Julie Deliquet, new artistic director of the Théâtre National de La Colline, makes their voices heard in a vibrant chorus that resonates with the voices of all women, of all wars. In the spring of 1975, in a Soviet communal apartment, a young journalist gathers the accounts of women from across the Soviet Union who, as teenagers, joined the armies…