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College
Karl Marx returns to
life
April 26 at Manchester
College
Come spend an hour with Karl Marx – at 7 p.m.
on Wednesday, April 26 – when Manchester College hosts Marx in Soho
by Howard Zinn. The free performance by Iron Age Theatre is in Wine
Recital Hall; reservations are not
 necessary.
In the play, Karl Marx, portrayed by Bob
Weick, returns to Earth to mischievously defend his ideas and renew his
call for social change. (Marx died in 1883.) The performance promises to
prompt intense and enthusiastic discussion, from those who agree and
disagree.
Here’s what the Philadelphia Inquirer
has to say about Weick’s Marx in Soho: "Though Marx has been
demonized by some as the father of communism, Robert Weick portrays him
as a personable man devoted to his wife and family as he writes Das
Kapital and struggles to make ends meet.”
Historian, playwright, activist Howard Zinn
is best known for his book, A People’s History of the United States.
The Manchester College performance of Marx in Soho is sponsored
by the College’s Peace Studies Institute and the Department of Religion
and Philosophy, and is partially underwritten by the Timothy Wayne
Rieman and Gwen Radebach Rieman Fund.
Weick’s credits include Philadelphia Theatre
Company, Triangle Theatre and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His
portrayal of Antarctic explorer Capt. Robert Falcon Scott earned him a
Barrymore nomination.
For more about Manchester, home of the
nation’s oldest peace studies program, visit
www.manchester.edu
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