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Thespians recognize continuing to rehearse is a perilous business – but they are determined to fight on

Tom Phillips and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince
Fri 6 Dec 2024 10.00 GMT

In a dimly lit rehearsal room in a city under attack, Jenny Cadet raised an imaginary pistol and fired a single make-believe bullet at her director.

“Life is a theatre. I am a theatre. We are a theatre. The world is a theatre,” proclaimed the 31-year-old Haitian actor, turning to the audience as she uttered the tragicomedy’s final lines.

Moments later, real-life shots rang out outside the stage school in Port-au-Prince – the latest act of violence in an increasingly terrifying drama that has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes here in the past fortnight alone.

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Cover photo : Odelyn Joseph/The Guardian