Lessons on Revolution
Author(s):
Gabriele Uboldi & Samuel Rees
Company:
Carmen Collective and Undone Theatre
1968. 3,000 students occupy the London School of Economics in the most significant act of protest in a generation.
2023. Two theatre-makers try to work out what radical change means today, searching through archives, photos, first-hand accounts.
Everything’s connected: from the Prague Spring to MLK Jr’s murder, the Paris riots to the Nigerian Civil War, and it’s all converging here and now.
Lessons on Revolution is a new piece of documentary theatre. It is a journey through global and personal history which asks: in a new age of inequality and injustice, how can the voices of the past give us hope?
