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Karl Marx Tours America to Clear his Name and Advocate Social Change

St. Paul, Minn. – Macalester College will host the Twin Cities only performance of Howard Zinn’s play, “Marx in Soho” at 3 p.m. Sun., Sept. 30, 2007, Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, Minn.  The play, which is free and open to the public, runs 75 minutes. A post-show panel discussion will follow the performance.  The play is sponsored by Macalester’s History Department and Academic Programs Office.

The play, produced by Iron Age Theatre and starring Bob Weick as Karl Marx, has been touring the country since 2005 visiting colleges, high schools, theatres and community groups.

Agitating the authorities of the afterlife to clear his name, Karl Marx returns to earth for one hour to make his case. However, due to a clerical error, Marx lands in America rather than his old stomping grounds in London. Not daunted, Marx launches into a passionate, funny and moving defense of his life and political ideas.

Some of the issues Marx confronts during the course of the play include American education, America’s super rich ruling class, corporate mergers, prisons and the media.

Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,884 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism and civic engagement.