Marx in Soho
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
OF HOWARD ZINN'S PLAY
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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