Variety: "Guerilla playwrights, willing to sleep in their cars for fear of losing an interview, or decamp for the Middle East or West Africa at the drop of a hat, are planting their flags all over the nonprofit theater map.
Documentary plays, fresh from still-boiling conflict zones, are appearing all over the country, from Lynn Nottage’s 'Ruined,' the Pulitzer -winning 'Mother Courage' update about Congolese victims of rape and sexual mutilation, to Danai Gurira’s Liberia-set 'Eclipsed' and Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen’s Iraqi exile drama 'Aftermath.'"
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The story of "Ruined"'s creation is really interesting. After seeing the show and reading all about how Lynn Nottage got her story and the interviews she conducted it suprised me how when she started she was looking for one thing and as a result got the complete opposite. The stories told in "Ruined" are heart wrenchingand all fom real people who want to tell their story. The connections people use to tell a story is also very cool. Knowing people helps people tell their story.
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