World factory : the game / Zoë Svendsen, Simon Daw.
Series: NHB modern plays: Publisher: London : Nick Hern Books, 2017Description: 96 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43183ISBN: 9781848426337 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Literature | Fashion | Brand ManagementDDC classification: 822.92 LOC classification: PR6119Summary: A participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play - as individuals or in teams - the managers of a clothing factory in China. Edition contains 7 essays on the global textile trade| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Made in China. Sold in Britain. Worn by you.
From the factory floor to the catwalk, from Shanghai to London, World Factory weaves together the untold stories of people connected by the global textile industry.
This published edition of World Factory: The Game adapts the highly successful, provocative and participative theatre production for the page, offering readers the opportunity to play - as individuals or in teams - the managers of a clothing factory in China and recreate the experience of the game.
Like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' novel, the game has multiple routes and outcomes, interlinking questions of ethics, fashion, consumer capitalism, environmental impact, working conditions, migration and globalisation. In a cross between Monopoly and poker, players trade in workers and money, but it is a game about values - will you be an ethical factory owner or will profits always come first? In the rag trade, can anyone ever really win?
World Factory was created and produced in 2015 by the performing arts company METIS, in co-production with the New Wolsey Theatre, Young Vic, and Company of Angels. It was performed at the Young Vic, London, and on tour of the UK.
A participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play - as individuals or in teams - the managers of a clothing factory in China. Edition contains 7 essays on the global textile trade
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 1)
- The Game Cards (p. 11)
- How to Enter the World Factory (p. 13)
- Game Cards (p. 17)
- Exploring the World Factory Further (p. 247)
- How to Read Multiple Routes (p. 249)
- How to Play with a Dealer (p. 253)
- Playing Materials (p. 261)
- Map of Card Routes (p. 263)
- Playing Chart (p. 267)
- Capital (p. 269)
- Worker ID Cards (p. 273)
- Worker Biography Cards (p. 277)
- Wild cards (p. 281)
- The Reckoning (p. 285)
- The Context (p. 303)
- 'Why We Need a Fashion Revolution' (p. 305)
- 'Threading the Global Cotton Supply Chain (p. 308)
- 'Clothing in Circulation: The Hidden Global Trail of Second-Hand Garments' (p. 313)
- 'Growth, Thy Name is Suffering: The Workers of the Workshop of the World' (p. 318)
- 'You are Never Secure: UK Workers in the Era of "Flexibility" ' (p. 324)
- 'Welcome to the Age of Irresponsibility' (p. 328)
- 'How Can We Make Things Better?' (p. 331)
- Credits (p. 335)
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