“I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.” WritingI CanWarPlayMomentsStoriesWantedRememberFireCrossesDemocraticCaughtEndlessObsessedRepublicCongoEndless WarDemocratic Republic Author:Lynn Nottage
“In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.” WarRolesContinuityNormalcy Author:Lynn Nottage
“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.” DifferentWarStoriesWantedFeltCasesMediaLibraryAbsenceNewspapersNarrativePlanesCongo Author:Lynn Nottage
