Overview
This
published edition 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.