The Islamic terrorist attacks that occurred in Paris on November 13, 2015, frightened, distressed, and angered the French people, many of whom still continue to process the events today. Several dramatizations of the tragic night have been written, and the latest is by Laurent Gaudé, a French author and playwright. Gaudé retraces the events through 17 different voices. Ranging from nurses and police officers to victims, bystanders, and parents, this collective account celebrates humanity rather than succumbing to terror. While some characters rarely appear, others have complete arcs—for example, we see a lesbian couple on a date, in the Bataclan, and finally in a hospital. “Gaudé and the director, Denis Marleau, manage just the right amount of distance and emotional finesse to haunt rather than reopen wounds,” writes the critic Laura Cappelle in The New York Times. —Jeanne Malle