Rape trial of France's feminist icon Pelicot retold on Vienna stage

A staged reading of selected fragments of the trial that made Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of rapes by dozens of men, a worldwide feminist icon will premiere in Vienna on Wednesday evening.

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The staging is the latest project of Vienna Festival director Milo Rau, one of many who followed last year's mass rape trial in the southern French city of Avignon.

Unusually for such trials, the hearings were held in open court after Pelicot insisted it be held in public, a decision that meant it received international media coverage and generated fierce debate.