National Theatre Live: Young Marx
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.
Cast
Rory Kinnear
as Marx
Nicholas Burns
as
Oliver Chris
as Engels
Nancy Carroll
as
Laura Elphinstone
as
Miltos Yerolemou
as
Harriet Turnbull
as Jenny "Qui Qui" Marx
Rupert Turnbull
as Guido "Fawksey" Marx
