Collective puts Marx's Das Kapital on stage
*Jess Smee in Berlin Thursday November 9, 2006 The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk>*
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. ...
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