ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a suggestion of the range of political theatre in the Arab World in the wake of the Arab Spring by examining recent endeavours in such theatre in three major Arab nations – Egypt and Syria, the traditional leading nations in the development of modern Arabic drama, and Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began, where this movement has most profoundly affected the political structure. Despite its more conflicted recent history, Egypt, with the strongest theatre tradition, has produced the most significant recent political work, particularly in smaller, more experimental venues. The ongoing war in Syria has made the condition of theatre there close to impossible, but the international Syrian community now in exile as a result of the ongoing conflict, is creating an important body or political drama dealing with the Arab World although necessarily developed outside it.
