Work Bitch – a contemporary Lehrstück or how to get from I to we*

Abstract

The play Work Bitch by Ida Marie Hede staged by Niels Erling at the Sort/Hvid Theatre in Copen­hagen in January-February 2022 can be seen as a contemporary Lehrstück or learning play, a genre invented by Bertolt Brecht in the 1920s and 1930s. Through a series of exemplary situations, the play discusses the possibilities of liberation in today’s capitalist society.