Das Kapital the Musical

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17 Mar 2009, 11:45 pm

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/20 ... china.html

A theatre company in Beijing has decided to adapt Marx and Engel's Das Kapital into a theatre peice. I honestly laughed my ass off reading this. I'd be curious to see how it was done, though, given the utter dryness of the text (Marx and Engels may have tried to effect change in favor of working people but they sure as hell didn't write for them)

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18 Mar 2009, 4:00 am

yes, the players would have to be assembly line robots.
i wonder what the audience will be like in beijing

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18 Mar 2009, 2:21 pm

I can't believe anyone even listened to Marx.

He was a raging Alcoholic and couldn't hold a job for more then six months. He was a total failure.
He wrote Das Kapitol in a total alcoholic haze.

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18 Mar 2009, 3:07 pm

Shadowgirl wrote:

I can't believe anyone even listened to Marx.

He was a raging Alcoholic and couldn't hold a job for more then six months. He was a total failure.
He wrote Das Kapitol in a total alcoholic haze.

Do I detect...argumentum ad hominem?

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19 Mar 2009, 12:46 am

Sounds so interesting to watch a play written by a lunatic or something like that, man!

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19 Mar 2009, 4:39 pm

twoshots wrote:

Shadowgirl wrote:

I can't believe anyone even listened to Marx.

He was a raging Alcoholic and couldn't hold a job for more then six months. He was a total failure.
He wrote Das Kapitol in a total alcoholic haze.

Do I detect...argumentum ad hominem?

No its just a fact I read about.

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19 Mar 2009, 10:01 pm

there is a spectre haunting Europe...or is it stage right?...

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20 Mar 2009, 1:37 am

Yep I hope so...

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