Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/congos-civil-war-is-rich-seam-for-prize-winning-playwright Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Playwright Lynn Nottage talks to Jeffrey Brown about her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Ruined," set during Congo's civil war. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JEFFREY BROWN: It's set in a small bar in the Congo, but Lynn Nottage's recent Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Ruined" tells an epic story about the ravages of war, especially its impact on women. ACTRESS: But is this who you want to be? ACTRESS: I'm sorry, mama, but… ACTRESS: No. No. I will put you out on your ass. LYNN NOTTAGE, playwright: You get little sound bites in the news. You get the statistics. But I wanted to hear the narratives of the women. It's like, who are they? What is it like to be a woman who hasn't started this war, but finds herself trapped in the middle of a war?Nearly 5 million people have died in the Congo right now and, I thought, half of them are women and children, but yet we don't know their names. We don't know who they are. We don't know what their stories are.