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Marx in Soho: A Play on History Howard Zinn
Publisher: South End Press

If we use a portion of your video, we'll send you a copy of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train or the new compilation of his plays, Three Plays: The Political Theater of Howard Zinn–Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus.” Visit the site to read excerpts and enter the contest. Biographer Ian Kershaw extolls Sperber's approach: “By locating Marx squarely in the society and intellectual currents of the nineteenth century, rather than interpreting him in the light of twentieth-century history, … of the “People's Historian”, edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy (The New Press) contains excerpts from A People's; his memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train; his writings on the civil rights movement; and the full text of his play Marx in Soho. He is a teacher in New York and contributes frequently to the Socialist Worker newspaper and the International Socialist Review magazine. He lent his voice to the audio recording of Noam Chomsky's book Hegemony or Survival and to several staged readings from Zinn's latest book, Voices of a People's History of the United States. Brian Jones, a New York teacher and actor, is a board member of VOICES and has also played the lead in Zinn's play Marx in SoHo. In short, I am very happy with what Bob has done. Marx in Soho is a play by Howard Zinn in which Karl Marx (played by George MacKenzie) comes back from the dead to clear his name and defend his ideas and his work. He is the author of many books, including the People's History Series; a seven-volume series on the Radical '60s; several collections of essays on art, war, politics and history; and the plays Emma and Marx in Soho. John Doyle directed the play brilliantly “. Since 1999, Jones has portrayed Karl Marx in Howard Zinn's play Marx in Soho in US tours. AE: What is the festival's history? We admired Weick's transitions, change of pace, the nuances of feeling.