It's Sunday afternoon and 10 people are gathered for a theater rehearsal in a community hall in Lille, a city in northern France. Most of the amateur actors here did not get to know each other through ...

France's anti-government "yellow vest" protests are no longer in the spotlight. But a theater group in northern France is bringing back the politics, the anger and, above all, the unity of previous ...

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