Theatre: Marx in Soho
NOVANEWS
Proletarian issue 57 (December 2013)
Giving socialism a bad name.
One-man show at the Calder Bookshop and Theatre, The Cut, London (19 September-13 October 2013).The actor Daniel Kelly gave a tour de force performance, and the play was well directed by Sergio Amigo, the Argentine artistic director at the Calder. But while the full house at the tiny fringe theatre clearly enjoyed the show, the play itself was a disappointment.
It should not have been, but the playwright (and historian), the American Howard Zinn (1922-2010), was known for his belief that the Soviet Union gave “socialism a bad name”. However, the title of the play, Marx in Soho, did rather suggest that it was going to look at Marx’s early life in London, rather than go off into a diatribe ...
