Switzerland – "Das Kapital. A book we haven't read yet" by Kepler-452
LAC Lugano hosts the show Das Kapital. A book we haven't read yet written and directed by the Bologna based theatre group Kepler-452 –Enrico Baraldi and Nicola Borghesi– and produced by ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro, which has been supporting the company’s work since 2018.
The performance was conceived with the workers who occupied the factory after the collective dismissal by the GKN company in Campi Bisenzio – one of the social and political events that has brought much discussion in Italy in recent times.
Nicola and Enrico spent some months with them in the occupied factory, sleeping on two camp beds. They interviewed hundreds of workers, participated in pickets, assemblies, and demonstrations, listening, observing, and finding from time to time a link with Marx’s pages in an attempt to establish a creative dialogue between Das Kapital and what was happening in the occupied factory, between a classic of philosophical and economic literature and a group of flesh and blood human beings.
Three of these workers are on stage with the company: Iorio, a maintenance man, Felice, an assembly-line worker, and Tiziana, a cleaner. They interweave their personal lives with a reflection on the life that emerges when production suddenly stops, and speaks to us about time, about who owns our time, who sells it, buys it, frees it.
The show, already highly applauded in the last edition of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, will be guest of the Festival International New Drama (FIND) in Berlin in April. The appointment in Lugano is on March 6, 8:30 pm, at the Teatro Foce.