Work in Progress: Rimini Protokoll’s Karl Marx: Capital, First Volume and the Experience of the Future on Stage

This article examines how the future is expressed and experienced in the theatre. Referring to the performance Karl Marx: Capital, First Volume by the German artistic collective Rimini Protokoll, the article exemplifies the relation between the past, the present and the future, showing how the different layers of time are interrelated. The performers involved are not professional actors but so-called ʹexpertsʹ, whose lives are connected to Marxʹs Capital in different ways. Based on the expertsʹ biographies, the performance not only offers a rereading of Marxʹs ideology, but also shows similarities between Rimini Protokollʹs artistic and Marxʹs scientific approach, between the conceptualization of oneʹs life and watching a performance in theatre