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One morning in the summer of 2021, 422 workers from an Italian factory receive an email: don't come to work tomorrow, you’re fired. Since that day on, the workers have occupied the factory, organising canteen and guard shifts to prevent machinery and production from being relocated to countries with cheaper labour costs. Theatre group Kepler-452 entered the factory during one of the first solidarity meetings. Initially, they imagine collecting material for a performance inspired by Karl Marx's Das Kapital, but they quickly become aware of the distance between theory and life. After months spent in the occupied factory, something new emerges; the story of workers proudly rebuilding an identity after losing their jobs. Das Kapital. A book we haven't read yet is a performance conceived with these workers, and with them on stage. In a precise structure, they interweave their personal lives with a reflection on the life that emerges when production stops. How much time have we not spent with our loved ones because of work? How often have we traded solidarity for personal gain? Capital speaks to us, above all, about time, about making it continuously productive; about a present that melts like ice, and the time that remains. A powerful hymn to the dignity of work and life.
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