In a four-part podcast, “Performing the Revolution,” theatermakers Meropi Peponides and Beto O'Byrne collaborated with producer Remoy Philip to knit together radical theater practices from around the world. Featured are Jana Natya Manch (Janam), a 50-year-old street theatre company that performs for India’s working class; The Freedom Theatre in Palestine’s West Bank, where kids fight to define who they are and what they dream about amidst a decades-long occupation; and El Teatro Campesino’s legacy of agitating during the historic California grape strikes.

We sat down with Peponides and Philip to discuss the process of telling these stories, their own relationships with performance, and whether theater can be at the heart of political change in today’s world.