There are realities that stop our hearts and leave us speechless, unable to react. The Sound of Cracking Bones deals with one of those realities: child soldiers. Elikia wakes Joseph, the youngest child in the camp, just eight years old, in the middle of the night to escape the violence together and go in search of a future. Thanks to her poetic world and her ability to look at reality in a raw, but also delicate way, Suzanne Lebeau lights fragile lights of hope to reveal to younger audiences the most complex realities of the world. Precisely so that our muteness can become a transformative word. As Primo Levi says in one of the quotes that open the text, "although it is impossible to understand, it is obligatory to know."

Suzanne Lebeau's commitment to giving voice to children and their realities, her determination to tell the world to the youngest children so that they can learn about the difficulties they face in other geographies, have made her theatre one of the main sources of renewal of the performing arts for children and young people. A committed theatre that is also a tool to make the world a better place.

ASSITEJ Spain has begun publishing his complete works in the International Theatre Collection, which already includes The Ogre, Sand Shoes, Three Little Sisters, Gretel and Hansel, Salvador and A Moon Between Two Houses.

Suzanne Lebeau is one of the most outstanding voices in international theatre. Her texts and her work with her company, Le Carrousel, have undoubtedly made her one of the main innovators of theatre for children in recent decades. ASSITEJ Spain has begun publishing her complete works in the International Theatre Collection, which already includes El ogrito, Zapatos de arena, Tres hermanitas, Gretel and Hansel y Salvador.

Translation by Coto Adánez.