ABSTRACT
The following articles were written in the months following the January 25 Egyptian revolution in 2011, in the heat of the moment, as it were. They are, therefore, an authentic record of a kind of existential engagement with a moment of historical change and its representation/interpretation on stage. The theatre born out of the events of that turbulent year was rich, varied, and deeply engaged with the moment. Documentary works proliferated, presenting personal readings of reality that sometimes tallied and, at others, clashed with my own immediate experience. Foreign plays, when projected in the context of daily, lived experience, acquired for me startling topical relevance and new meanings. In each article, therefore, the reader will notice this overlap between my own personal experience of 2011 and the way it was mediated through the art of theatre.
