The theater company OneTwoFree presents for the first time to the Greek audience the play **“The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield”** by Matei Vișniec at **Horos Theater**, from March 13 to April 25, directed by Stelios Patsias.

A few words about the story:

Two women from different cultural backgrounds meet in the aftermath of the Bosnian ethnic war. Kate, an American psychologist, meets Dora, a victim of genocidal rape. Through a collage of real and imagined images and situations, the story of these two women unfolds, as well as their struggle to overcome the horrors, the traumas of war, and their personal deadlocks.

The central theme of the play is war, which tragically remains highly relevant. At the same time, it explores nationalist madness, intolerance, rape as a weapon of war, racism, migration, and violence, as well as solidarity, faith in humanity, and the miracle of life, represented by birth.

Through these two women, who may have survived the war physically but are struggling to survive mentally, we understand that in the context of violent conflict, there is a type of violence beyond the murderous, which does not aim primarily at killing an enemy but seeks to destroy the very core of the human being while keeping the body alive.

From an interview with Matei Vișniec:
*”Since ancient times, theater has addressed violence without being an antidote. It awakens consciences, denounces, sparks discussions. My plays addressing war unfortunately tend to remain timely. I believe women play a huge role in helping humanity emerge from this metaphysical tunnel that is the civilization of violence. A woman, simply because she gives life, is not capable of killing with the ease of a man.”*