Een aantal Egyptische activistartiesten belichten de recente geschiedenis met beelden, getuigenissen, scenes en geluiden. Een gedeeld moment vanuit twintig persoonlijke invalshoeken, samengesteld in alle onvolmaaktheid. Niet om te documenteren of te herdenken, maar om te reflecteren met een publiek. Een onderzoek in tegenspraak. Een dagelijks veranderende voorstelling. Een poging om te rechtvaardigen dat dit niet zomaar een kunstwerk is, politiek en hedendaags, voortspruitend uit artistiek opportunisme.

Lessons in Revolting is a performance made by a group of Egyptian activist-artists who want to rewrite their recent history through images, movement, testimonies and sounds. Scenes are created from their most personal perspectives. The purpose is not only to document or reminisce, but to share and reflect with an audience, a work of contemporary and political art.

Ruud Gielens and Laila Soliman, bring together a team of versatile Egyptian artists and activists to make a performance that does not only want to talk about what started on Tahrir square at the beginning of 2011, but that mainly wants to react to what is happening now in Cairo, because this revolution is far from over. 
A physical and visual political column!

Text:
- Baked Stone Cake (Poem): Naguip Sorour 
- Aly Khamees’ Monologue is based on a Facebook note by: Mohamed el Seedy 
- All other monologues were written by the actors themselves 

  Songs:
“Abd El Wadood” (Written and composed during the Tiran events in May 1967) Written by: Ahmed Foad Negm Composed by: El Sheikh Emam
“Covered the Universe” (Written and composed after the 25th of January 2011) Written by: Ahmed Foad Negm Composed by: Maryam
“Melody of Death, Melody of Life” (Composed after the “Dunshwai massacare” in Egypt 1906) Writer is unknown Composed by: Salama Hegazy
“Sleep my angel” Written by: Ahmed Ramy Composes by: Reyad El Sonbaty