He wants to have phone sex, she wants to leave her house without a headscarf: a Cairo play seeks to confront Egypt’s social taboos by laying bare the sexual frustrations and harassments that beset daily life.

In a makeshift theatre set up in the cafeteria of the Cairo Opera House, a group of amateur actors perform short sketches based on real-life experiences and inspired by Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues”.