Tage aus Glas // Theaterkollektiv Pièrre.Vers

In 1901, the furnaces of the world's largest glassworks in Gerresheim are at a standstill: the workers are on strike for better pay and dignity, while others profit from owning the factory. At the center of "Days of Glass" are Bille, the daughter of a glass worker, and Leonie, the daughter of the factory doctor. Their different lives reflect the class relations of the time. The new production by the Pièrre.Vers theater collective led by director Christof Seeger-Zurmühlen links the story of the Gerresheim strike with contemporary questions about social participation, property relations and class struggles from the perspective of the two women. The play takes the audience on a journey through time around the site of the former glassworks, an industrial wasteland between past and future. Between listed brick buildings, open spaces and new construction projects, the stories of Bille, Leonie and the glassworks that still characterize Gerresheim interweave. What has changed in times of
economic growth pressure, digitalization and technological transformation, what has changed in the relationship between those who live from wage labour and those who benefit from wealth?