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Aug 2021
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La comédienne de balcon (The Balcony Per...

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During the second Covid lockdown, the French President had declared that theaters weren’t "essential." But to Marie, theater was the essence of life. Could she do anything to safely bring theater to audiences?

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3rTnEkH.

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