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Ruined | Theatre review by Michael Billington

Almeida, LondonLynn Nottage's play arrives in London laden with American honours. And rightly so, since it offers a graphic portrait of women as perennial victims of war. More than that, it reminds us of the continuing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which rarely makes the front pages but has led to 5.4m deaths.Nottage's focus is very precise: she deals with a bar-cum-brothel in a small Congolese mining…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AM on October 24, 2017

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