Festival de théâtres- Girls with yellow hands

There are stories that history has kept under wraps for too long. The story of the munitionnettes is one of them. The Compagnie de la lettre G invites you to discover them at last, through a play written by Michel Bellier and directed by Gilles Champion - a powerful, necessary and profoundly human show.

We are in the midst of the First World War. Men are at the front - husbands, sons, brothers, fathers. Behind them, they have left women who have no choice but to take up their place, keep the country on its feet, keep the factories running. Among them, munitions workers, elbow to elbow in a shell factory, manufacturing day after day the weapons of a war they had not declared.

Conditions are appalling. Wages are low. And the yellow powder that impregnates their hands, clothes and skin, silently eats away at their health. They know what they're risking. They carry on anyway - because they have to, because they have no other choice, because somewhere, on the other side of the trenches, there's a man they love and hope to see again.

But these women are not just victims. They are alive, resilient and on their feet. In factories across France, Europe and as far away as Russia, women's voices are raised against war, against deprivation, against injustice. They fought for peace, for their dignity, for their emancipation - in a world that never granted them anything easily.

Through these intimate and universal destinies, the play pays vibrant tribute to all those anonymous women who have carried the weight of an entire era on their shoulders, without ever giving up hope.

A show that moves, challenges and resonates.