Rangrez presents a satirical play on the eve of this May day "Karl Marx Bambai mein" on Sat 2nd, and Sun 3rd May at 7:30pm.

The strongest point of the narrative directly connects throughout the play with variable issues which relate through the issues our country is facing in contemporary times, though the play was written a century earlier, through western / American situations and problems.

The frustration of the people, economic crisis of our country, economical gap between rich and struggling classes, the monarchy of the system - All situations dealt through this play are mirror images of our country and many developing and third world countries.

One most curious point which excites Rangrez to perform this play is - That Karl Marx represented the play in a satirical, yet comical & funny narrative…!!! - Yes the play is talking about Marx theory, history of that time and seems a bit overloading but it unfolds in a mesmerizing and entertaining way, indeed. If a person need to know about historical characters or events he can anytime surf internet in this digital age or can visit a library and can have access to many dimensions added to the specific event or character he is looking for. But the narrative and core issue of this play is so quirky that hatches true magic and aesthetic orgasm to the viewer’s eyes. People watch theatre for entertainment and social responsibilities. This play is perfect from every aspect of theatre. That’s makes me excited towards the performance of this play.

Writer Howard Zinn Note About the play "Marx in Soho"

"I first read “The communist manifesto given to me, I am sure, by young communist who lived in my working class neighborhood when I was about seventeen. It had a profound effect on me, because everything I saw in my own life, the life of my own parents and the conditions in the united states in 1939 seemed to be explained, put into a historical context and placed under a powerful analytical light.

I wrote the play at a time when the collapse of the Soviet Union brought an almost universal exultation in the mainstream press and among political leaders not only was “The enemy gone” but the idea of Marxism was discredited. Capitalism and the :Free market” had triumphed. Marxism had failed. Marx was truly dead. I thought it important, therefore to make it clear that neither the Soviet Union nor other countries that called themselves “Marxist” but had set up police states represented marx’s notion of socialism. I want to show marx as angry that his theories had been so distorted as to stand for Stalinist cruelties through this play.
Those who read “Marx in Soho” may wonder how much is historically accurate. The major events in Marx’s life and in the history of the era fundamentally true: His marriage to Jenny, his exile to London the death of his three children, and the political conflict of that time. The Irish struggle against England. The main characters he talks about are real the members of his family his friend Engels his rival Bakunin. The dialogue is invented but I have tried to be true to the personalities and the thinking of the characters, though I may be taking liberties in imagining his ideological with Jenny and Eleanor. On a few occasions, as in his description of Napoleon lll , I use Marx’s own word.

My hope is that “Marx in Soho” illuminates not just that time and Marx’s place in it, but our time and our place in it".

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