Conflict survivors find healing in theatre group performance

BRUSSELS, Feb 7: The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize last year for helping unite a continent. But one U.S. Woman is demonstrating that in Northern Ireland, peace and reconciliation can also be fostered in more personal and expressive ways. Teya Sepinuck from Philadelphia is the founder of Theatre of Witness, a group that puts on dramas to tell the stories of people who would not otherwise be heard, performed not by actors but by the people themselves. (agencies)