Lessons On Revolution
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This is a story about change, how it happens, how we talk about it.
1968, London School of Economics. Three thousand students occupy a lecture hall, demanding the university cut ties with apartheid-era Rhodesia. Tensions escalate as the students fight for radical change while the administration pushes back. The world watches, waiting to see who will blink first.
2024, a cramped Camden flat. Two flatmates dive into the archives from 1968, discovering the student movement that electrified their local streets fifty years earlier. When the rent on their unsafe flat goes up again, they turn to the past to reignite their belief in the future.
Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi’s play brings the most significant protest of a generation to life through the voices of those who lived it. Lessons On Revolution is a “compelling and galvanising” (James Graham) journey to 1968.
"A heartfelt paean to the politics of possibility"
★★★★★ - The Scotsman
"Unique and intellectually potent"
★★★★★ - The Morning Star
'Intelligent, questioning documentary theatre"
★★★★ - The Stage
"Completely exceptional... it reinvents the notion of lecture and the notion of performance"
- The Theatre Times
https://www.undonetheatre.com/lessons-on-revolution
About the performers
UNDONE THEATRE is an award-winning, queer- and migrant-led company platforming marginalised stories through formal innovation. We create relevant new work that questions and challenges traditional forms of storytelling. Previous work includes So That You May Go Beyond The Sea at Camden People’s Theatre (★★★★ Theatre Weekly); and two-day festival LONDON/LONDRA at Queercircle (winner of the Lynne Segal Prize). www.undonetheatre.com
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