declare me dead again and again?"
KARL MARX
Marx is back! The premise of this witty and insightful "play on history" is that Karl Marx has agitated with the authorities of the afterlife for a chance to clear his name. Through a bureaucratic error, though, Marx is sent to Soho in New York, rather than his old stomping ground in London, to make his case.
Howard Zinn, best known for his book, 'A Peoples History of the United States', introduces us to Marx's wife, Jenny, his children, the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, and a host of other characters.
Brian Jones, an African American actor and activist, has been performing this engaging one-man show across the country since 1999.
Marx in Soho is a brilliant introduction to Marx's life, his analysis of society, and his passion for radical change. Zinn also shows how relevant Marx's ideas are for today's world.
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about Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn is professor emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of the classic 'A People's History of the United States'. Zinn recently received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs award for his writing and political activism. Zinn and Anthony Arnove recently published an anthology of primary documents to serve as a companion to 'People's History', under the title, 'Voices of a People's History of the United States'. Zinn grew up in Brooklyn and worked in shipyards before serving as an Air Force bombardier in World War II. Zinn was chair of the History Department at Spelman College, where he actively participated in the civil rights movement, before taking a position at Boston University. He now lives with his wife, Roslyn, in Massachusetts and lectures widely on history and contemporary politics.
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about Brian Jones
Brian Jones has toured across the country as Marx since June 1999. He lent his voice to the audio recording of Noam Chomsky's book, 'Hegemony or Survival' and to several staged readings from Zinn's latest book, 'Voices of a People's History of the United States'. He is teacher in New York and contributes frequently to Socialist Worker newspaper and the International Socialist Review magazine.
check out Brian's column on SocialistWorker.org!
(updated 7/8/08)