Theater - Unreeducable Woman
Cultural, Theatre
in Montauban
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“You have to write the truth even if no one wants to hear it.” - General audience, ages 14 and up Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
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After the successful play "Changing the Water for Flowers," Caroline Rochefort takes on a major Russian figure.
Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist, covers the war in Chechnya and denounces the atrocities committed. A human rights activist, she is disruptive and talks too much. "They" nickname her the Madwoman of Moscow. A tireless worker, Anna Politkovskaya is convinced that individual civic courage will ultimately overcome the despotic state.
On October 7, 2006, she was found...After the successful play "Changing the Water for Flowers," Caroline Rochefort takes on a major Russian figure.
Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist, covers the war in Chechnya and denounces the atrocities committed. A human rights activist, she is disruptive and talks too much. "They" nickname her the Madwoman of Moscow. A tireless worker, Anna Politkovskaya is convinced that individual civic courage will ultimately overcome the despotic state.
On October 7, 2006, she was found murdered in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment building. Inspired by true events, this play traces the extraordinary life of this journalist and offers us the portrait of a contemporary heroine.
ABOUT...
This powerful, committed, and implacably lucid text reminds us of the absolute and uncompromising necessity of press freedom and allows for profound reflection on democracy. Unreeducable Woman recounts six years of notes, articles, interviews, testimonies... collected in the field by Anna Politkovskaya, all rewritten by Stefano Massini, in a precise and incisive style.
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Schedules
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- On March 13, 2026 from 8:30 PM to 9:40 PM
