
Overview
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.
Production
Bridge Theatre · National Theatre
Cast & Characters

Rory Kinnear
Marx

Nicholas Burns

Oliver Chris
Engels

Nancy Carroll

Laura Elphinstone

Miltos Yerolemou

Harriet Turnbull
Jenny "Qui Qui" Marx

Rupert Turnbull
Guido "Fawksey" Marx
Directors & Crew
Clive Coleman
Writer
Nicholas Hytner
Director
Richard Bean
Writer
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