德国杜尔塞夫日前首演 马克斯经济理论巨作「资本论」 Rimini Protokoll剧团，以纪录片剧场形式表现。 由八位读过此作品的人来担任演出自己的故事，创造出一个 剧场拼贴的马克斯世界。入场观众，会拿到一本马克斯恩格斯作品选集。 虽然在杜尔赛夫的首演，剧评普遍给予「枯燥、乏味」的评语。 此剧依然会依计画接下来会在柏林、法兰克福、苏黎世上演。 全文详见 卫报 --------------------------------------------- http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329622612-99819,00.html Collective puts Marx's Das Kapital on stage Jess Smee in Berlin Thursday November 9, 2006 Guardian There is no wedding, no romantic interest and no plot to speak of. Instead the reader of Karl Marx's epic work, Das Kapital, is treated to a lengthy treatise on the division of labour and capitalist modes of production, offered up in long, convoluted sentences. Yet none of this has deterred a German theatre group from achieving the seemingly impossible: bringing the huge classic on economic theory to the stage. Not since Proust was serialised has a dramatist faced such a gargantuan task - turning catchy topics such as "the production of absolute surplus value" into a crowd puller. To that purpose, the stage of the Du"sseldorfer Schauspielhaus is bedecked with bookcases and a bust of Marx. Eight people - selected from among the few who have read the book from cover to cover - tell their own stories, creating a theatrical collage where Marx forms the common thread. The play, Kapital: Volume One, is the brainchild of Rimini Protokoll, a collective of young German directors who have made a name for themselves in "documentary theatre". In Kapital, the participants make up a diverse bunch. There is a staunch Marxist who rails against Coca-Cola and the evils of consumer society, a socialist singer from the former communist east Germany, and a blind call-centre worker who dreams of going on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. In an unusual take on audience participation, every theatregoer gets a bound book - Volume 23 of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels. Reading the complete volume aloud, with analysis to work out what is being said, would mean a theatre audience having to sit and watch for an entire year. But the Rimini Protokoll directors have kept their version to the more manageable length of one evening. The collective says, however, that every performance is different, reflecting the spontaneity of a play that was rehearsed for only three weeks. Rimini Protokoll have had recent sellout shows, such as Blaiberg und Sweetheart 19, which included former heart transplant patients alongside people who had sought love on lonely hearts websites. Marx based his book on 30 years of research into capitalist production in industrial England. The play, which made its debut on Saturday, has left some critics less than gripped. "Most of it remains something of a lecture which, like all lectures, is at times dry and boring," the Su"ddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported. After its Du"sseldorf run the play will be shown in Berlin, Frankfurt and Zurich. --

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