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

[Bonnie Weinstein]

Dear All,

This is a wonderful play and Jerry Levy is Karl Marx, no question. I was
privileged to work with Bay Area United Against War when we sponsored this
play, with Jerry, in San Francisco a few years ago. I had never met him and
set off to meet him on Cortland Street, in San Francisco--close to where he
was to stay. The person he was to stay with was not home from work  yet so I
told Jerry I would meet him on Cortland St. I went to the first coffee house
closest to where Jerry was to stay, and, there sat Karl Marx himself. I
said, "Mr. Marx, I presume?" and everyone in the coffee house chuckled.
Jerry immediately pulled out a flyer advertising the play and handed it out
to everyone. He spent his days publicizing the play by walking through the
streets of San Francisco--he can exhaust a two-year-old! The play was a huge
success and Jerry was absolutely brilliant! The play itself is a classic!

I highly recommend this.

Comradely,

Bonnie Weinstein

On 1/2/08 10:19 AM, "kazembe at gmail.com" <kazembe at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
> Sliding Scale: $10/$15/$25
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