ABSTRACT
During times of political turmoil, many theatrical performances become politically engaged. Post-2011 Egyptian theatre reacted to moments of crises by adopting avant-garde theatrical forms and elements that challenged political injustices as well theatrical conventions. Laīla Solīmān and Ruud Gielens’s performance work, Lessons in Revolting, uses postdramatic elements, such as narrative fragmentation, modern dance, screen projections, and documentary stories to resist the dominant order and give voice to the politically oppressed women and men of Egyptian society.
