Fairfly

Yesterday we saw the new play by our comrades in Antrakt7: Fairfly. It’s a play written by the Catalan author Joan Yago which tells the story of four white-collar workers who, upon getting the news of their potential layoff, decide to “change the world.” Let me briefly summarize the story here. If you don’t want to get spoilers, skip this paragraph. Santi, Irene, Martha and Pere are white-collar workers employed by a small baby food manufacturer. The company decides to lay off an uncertain percentage of workers after being pressed by Novalis, their biggest distributor, to decrease prices. Hearing this unwelcome news, the quartet first decides to organize within the company to oppose layoffs. While writing a leaflet to invite other workers to organize, they start to argue: Do they want to fight collectively or find a way for their individual salvation? This argument eventually leads to the decision to found their own baby food company based on Pere’s revolutionary idea of using fly…