Biography friedrich engels bearden

By Lucien Willey

Capital (Noun): 1. Wealth in the form of assets. 2. A town or city that functions as the seat of government. 3. (colloquial expression - UK): Very good, excellent. This triple-meaninged word was to be the original title of Jonathan Dove’s new opera Marx in London! , a comedic farce about the radical thinker who wrote Das Kapital and co-wrote The Communist Manifesto that takes place over the course of a single day in 1871. Composed for, and having premiered at the Stadttheater Bonn, this opera’s witty, English-language librreto makes for enjoyable viewing. While supposedly – according to the programme, at least – it took the German audience about twenty minutes to realize they were allowed to laugh at it, the audience at the Festival Theater in Edinburgh were much quicker on the draw, with waves of laughter rolling from the stalls to the dress circle almost as soon as the curtain rose, introducing us to the Prussian spy (Jamie Macdougall), our semi-narrator, whose leitmotif of typewriter clacks and a bassoon at times felt almost cartoonish.

Marx himself is written as a troubled baritone, played with suitable pomp, ego, and drama by Roland Wood. He drinks, spends money he doesn't have,

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