Karl Marx/Das Kapital: Erster Band
19/10/2007
, 
20:00
20/10/2007
, 19:00
concept & direction Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll
with Thomas Kuczynski, Ulf Mailänder, Talivaldis Margevics, Jochen Noth, Christian Spremberg, Ralph Warnholz, Franziska Zwerg, Sascha Warnecke
set Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel/Daniel Schulz
dramaturgy Andrea Schwieter/Imanuel Schipper
presentation KVS, Kunstenfestivaldesarts
production Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
co-production Hebbel-Am-Ufer (Berlin), Schauspielhaus Zürich, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt
RUNNING TIME 2 hrs
NATIONAL PREMIERE
PLAY IN GERMAN WITH SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION IN ITALIAN
Can a stodgy economic treatise be turned into a disarming stage performance? Rimini Protokoll has taken up the challenge and is staging the first volume of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. A classic, it's true, but who has ever actually read it? Directors Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel have called on eight people whose expertise comes from experience - not professional actors, but people whose lives have somehow been influenced by Marxist thinking. A former Maoist who traded in his membership card for a high-quality bespoke three-piece suit; a blind call-centre employee who dreams of taking part in Who wants to be a millionaire? Both tell their stories in a library cum living room, between the coffeemaker and the gramophone. What drove them? And in what way did the ideology colour their lives?
