Occupations
Occupations Author: Trevor Griffiths
First Performance: 1970, Manchester
Published: 1972
Genre: Pol. drama in 7 scenes
Setting: Hotel room and factory, Turin, 1920
Cast: 6m, 2f
In the early days of Communism, Kabak is sent from Moscow in response to the workers' occupation of the Fiat motor-car factories in Turin, led by the activist Antonio Gramsci. He has in his care an unreformed Russian émigrée, Angelica, who is addicted to cocaine and is dying. Gramsci is a popular leader, encouraging proletarian revolution in a way that is coloured by dangerously optimistic idealism. Kabak is the steely emissary from the Comintern sent to place a proto-Stalinist check on the workers' subversion. To Gramsci, Kabak's intervention seems like betrayal; to Kabak, his firmness is essential to prevent the workers sliding into...
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