Numax Fagor Plus

In this piece from Roger Bernat, the audience has last say in historical re-enactment. History continually repeats itself. In 1979, Numax, a Spanish home appliance manufacturer, went bankrupt. The employees tried to save the company as a collective, but failed in their attempt. They recorded the last days of the factory on video. In 2013, Fagor, another workers collective and also a home appliance manufacturer, went bankrupt too. The Spanish artist and theatremaker Roger Bernat asked the Fagor employees to re-enact the last days of Numax, allowing them to more or less replay their own situation, but with a historical twist. In Numax-Fagor-plus, Bernat presents the results of that attempt and gives the audience the opportunity to have the last say in the success of his re-enactment of the past. Playing with overlapping stories and reality and fiction, Bernat shows how powerful yet vulnerable a collective of individuals can be.