About: 1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is
hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the
thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of
intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional
illiteracy.
Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and
prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His
writing blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels in despair at his wasted
genius, his only hope is a job on the railway. But there’s still no one in the
capital who can show you a better night on the piss than Karl
Heinrich Marx.
Rory
Kinnear plays Marx and Oliver Chris, Engels. The production reunites the
creative team behind Richard Bean’s smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors, with
direction by Nicholas Hytner, design by Mark Thompson, music by Grant Olding,
sound by Paul Arditti and lighting by Mark Henderson.