There is no wedding, no romantic interest and no plot to speak of. Instead the reader of Karl Marx's epic work, Das Kapital, is treated to a lengthy treatise on the division of labour and capitalist modes of production, offered up in long, convoluted sentences.
Yet none of this has deterred a German theatre group from achieving the seemingly impossible: bringing the huge classic on economic theory to the stage.
Not since Proust was serialised has a dramatist faced such a gargantuan task - turning catchy topics such as 'the production of absolute surplus value' into a crowd puller.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported that it is dry and boring. What a surprise! They should have made it a musical with scantily dressed dancers kicking up a storm to The Internationale. They could call it A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Revolution. The bookish yet hunky young Karl would yearn for love as he soulfully croons I May Be Red But I'm Not Dead. In the end he would get the girl and stick it to the man. I'd pay to see that.
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