I wanted to tell the story of ...

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.
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 Lynn Nottage

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A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
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 Lynn Nottage
When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.
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 Lynn Nottage