Brian performed an excerpt of "Marx in Soho" at the 2010 Left Forum.
Watch Brian's performance of the entire play online here.
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"Don't you wonder: why is it necessary
to declare me dead again and again?"
Karl Marx
about
the play
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 Marx's ideas are relevant in
today's world.
Read the reviews
about
Howard Zinn
Howard
Zinn (1922-2010) is the author of the classic
A People's History of the United
States.
Zinn received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for
Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs Award for his writing
and political activism. Zinn and Anthony Arnove
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.
Learn more about Howard Zinn's life and legacy
here.
visit Howard Zinn's website
about
Brian Jones
Brian
Jones is a teacher, actor and activist in New York City.
Jones co-narrated the film,
The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for
Superman
and contributed to the book,
Education and Capitalism: Struggles for
Learning and Liberation.
His commentary and writing have appeared on
MSNBC.com,
Democracy Now!,
The Huffington Post,
GritTV
and
SocialistWorker.org.
Jones has also lent his voice to several audiobooks,
including,
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment
That Changed the World
and Howard Zinn's one-man play
Marx in
Soho.
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"To
be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It
is based on the fact that human history is a history not
only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice,
courage, kindness."
Howard Zinn (1922-
2010)
(updated 4/26/12)