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Young Marx

1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the 32-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. 

The production reunited the creative team behind Richard Bean’s smash hit One Man, Two Guvnors, with direction by Nicholas Hytner, design by Mark Thompson, music by Grant Olding, sound by Paul Arditti and lighting by Mark Henderson. Rory Kinnear took the role of Marx and Oliver Chris, Engels.

Young Marx was broadcast by National Theatre Live on 7 December 2017.

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Dates

The Bridge, London

18 October – 31 December 2017

Creative Team

Co-writer Richard Bean 

Co-writer Clive Coleman 

Director Nicholas Hytner 

Designer Mark Thompson 

Lighting Mark Henderson 

Sound Paul Arditti 

Music Grant Olding 

Fight Director Kate Waters

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