RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it
Talking ’bout a revolution
EWAN CAMERON negotiates the fringe to pick out some of the best political shows

LESSONS IN REVOLUTION (★★★★★) is a play that at times resembles a live action essay, and a poignant look at the dialectic of failure and legacy.
Stitched together by soundscapes, photos, video, audience participation and, fittingly for the narrative, an overhead projector, this is a unique multimedia production held in the intimate stage of the Former Woman’s Locker Room at Edinburgh’s Summerhall.
Produced and performed by playwrights Gabriele Uboldi and Sam Rees, the play weaves a compelling view of the web of global capitalism in a story that takes the audience from the former British colony of Rhodesia to the cramped slum apartments of modern-day London.
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