During World War II, nearly a million girls and women served in the Soviet army. Some were still teenagers when they became snipers, pilots, mechanics, tank drivers, nurses, or surgeons. They were ready to die for their country, and yet at the same time, they longed more than anything to survive.

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Decades later, Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich listened to their stories and their silences. Slowly, these women found the strength to break a long and painful silence and speak about their war. The ‘womanly’ war has its own colours, its own smells, its own light, and its own range of feelings, says Alexievich, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015. Like a powerful polyphonic chorus, these voices reveal a war without heroes in a world where everyone suffers unbearably: people, animals, and the earth itself.

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Nach der jüngsten Tournee des TNL nach Slowenien wird das renommierte Nationaltheater Drama Ljubljana nun zum ersten Mal überhaupt im Großherzogtum auftreten – mit sechs brillanten slowenischen Schauspielerinnen unter der Regie von Biljana Radinoska und begleitet von einem Frauenchor aus Luxemburg. Aufgeschrieben wurden diese bewegenden Zeugnisse von der belarussischen Nobelpreisträgerin Swetlana Alexijewitsch.

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Director: Biljana Radinoska

Adaptation: Špela Frlic

Set Design: Maruša Mali

Costume Design: Jelena Proković

Lighting Design: Mojca Sarjaš

With: Iva Babić, Barbara Cerar, Silva Čušin, Eva Jesenovec, Vanja Plut, Maja Sever

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A production: SNG Drama Ljubljana