IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
The aftermath of revolution
MAYER WAKEFIELD falls in love with a deft and hilarious portrait of Cairo after the Arab Spring

You Bury Me
Orange Tree Theatre
“THIS story isn’t even about 2011.
This story isn’t about that… dream.
This is a story about death.
The death of that dream.
This is about 2015”
The city of Cairo is not just the setting for You Bury Me but also the seventh character alongside six others who form an ensemble to voice the unrelenting energy of Egypt’s capital.
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