The musical Ruins - an acclaimed play by American Lynn Nottage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 - tells the dramatic stories of rape and slavery of six Congolese women fleeing war, based on real testimonies collected by the author in a refugee camp in Uganda. The setting is a bar-brothel on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this supposed safe haven, frequented by both government militias and rebel forces, the cunning matriarch and owner of the establishment - Mama Nadi - both protects these women and profits from their bodies, which have themselves become a battlefield.

A musical of resistance against a backdrop of tragedy, destruction and ruin.