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By Richard Lykes

Special to the Rappahannock News

In her debut as a playwright, Rappahannock resident Joyce Abell has taken the stories of four amazing women who grew up as children in Europe during World War II and turned their reminiscences into an original play.

Called “Children of War,” this riveting new play launches Ki Theatre’s new season on Saturday, Nov. 6.

The 8 p.m. performance is part of the “No Ordinary Person” series which has become a signature production of the theatre over the last few years, thanks to the creative influence of theatre co-director Julie Portman and Abell.

Abell has written a fascinating performance based on the stories of four European women whose lives were transformed as children by their experiences of growing up during the war. In addition, there are two stories told by men themselves, including one who grew up as a child in Hungary and another who was an American child on a military base in Pennsylvania—the son of an inventor of a “smart

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