NUMAX-FAGOR-PLUS

ROGER BERNAT/FFF (ES)

History repeats itself. In 1979, the workers at Numax, the Spanish manufacturer of household appliances, learn that an experiment of collective self-management to save their business has failed. Aware of the defeat, they decide to capture their last days on film. In 2013, the cooperative Fagor, one of the largest manufacturers of household electronics in Europe, were forced to close their books. Roger Bernat invited the workers from Fagor to restage the last deliberations at Numax in the style of re-enactments of historical battles.
Numax-Fagor-plus

is a sort of theatrical and political karaoke, stimulating above all because it crosses, with a backward leap, 30 years of social history. Thanks to a dramaturgical device, nobody, after this show, will be able to say that theater is illusion. More than a charismatic reinterpretation of a battle won or lost, Numax-Fagor-plus is the collectivization of a discourse, the development of a battle that is clearly never over. A discourse that still belongs to everyone.

Roger Bernat’s work has already come to the FIT Festival in 2013. Bernat is one of the authors, together with Yan Duyvendak, of the extraordinary Hamlet trial, Please, Continue (Hamlet).

NUMAX-FAGOR-PLUS
direction, concept: Roger Bernat
with: Tanya Beyeler
production: Elétrica Produccions
coproduction: KunstenFestivalDesArtes – Bruxelles e Grec 2014 Festival de Barcelona. FRAC Basse Normandie (Caen) and Temporada Alta (Girona).

FRI 16.10.2015 | 21.30
STUDIO FOCE – LUGANO

talk, After-show meeting with the audience,
moderator Simona Gonella