[Marxism] Limited Engagement: Marx in Soho! 1/18-1/19

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The Brecht Forum
451 West Street (Between Bank and Bethune)
A,C,E,F, L,1,2,3 to 14th Street
212-242-4201,
www.brechtforum.org




Friday, January 18
Saturday January 19th
8:00 pm

BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
OF HOWARD ZINN'S PLAY


Marx in Soho


Jerry Levy
"By showing us Marx the man, Zinn poignantly humanizes him. By showing us
Marx the theorist, Zinn gently educates us. And by bringing Marx into
today's era, Zinn cleverly and unmistakably argues the relevance of Marx's
ideas in our time." --Backstage West

Imagine all Karl Marx would have to say after one hundred years of just
being able to watch...

Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho portrays the return of Marx roughly a century
after his death. Embedded in some secular afterlife where intellectuals,
artists, and radicals are sent, Marx is given permission by the
administrative committee to return to Soho London to have his say. But
through a bureaucratic mix-up, he winds up in SoHo in New York. From there
the audience is given a rare glimpse of a Marx seldom talked about; Marx the
scholar, the immigrant, the family man. Responding to the fall of the Soviet
Union and the conventional perception that Marx's ideas are dead, Zinn
resurrects this controvers" In poignant, funny, and intimate narrative, Zinn
convinces us not only that Marx is not dead, but that his critique of
capitalism remains relevant today.

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