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YOUNG MARX

Richard Bean and Clive Coleman

YOUNG MARX

OBERON BOOKS

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First published in 2017 by Oberon Books Ltd
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Copyright Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, 2017

Richard Bean and Clive Coleman are hereby identified as authors of this play in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The authors have asserted their moral rights.

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Contents

Characters

(age in play and actual age in November 1850 if different.)

KARL MARX, 32

FRIEDRICH ENGELS, 29

JENNY VON WESTPHALEN, 36

JENNY CAROLINE QUI QUI MARX, 10

(actual age, six years old)

GUIDO FAWKSEY MARX, 3

(actual age, one year old)

HELENE NYM DEMUTH (the maid), 30

AUGUST VON WILLICH, 39

EMMANUEL BARTHLEMY, 30

KONRAD SCHRAMM, 21

(actual age, twenty-eight years old)

GERT DOC SCHMIDT, 32

And others, notably SERGEANT SAVAGE, CONSTABLE CRIMP, MRS MULLETT (Whelk seller), MR FLEECE (Pawnbroker), MR GRABINER (Bailiff), HELMUT (Prussian spy), and migrs, library staff, readers, traders, Londoners

SET

Soho 1850. Multi location, Soho streets, rented apartment interior, Hampstead Heath, function room of Red Lion, pawnbrokers, graveyard.

LANGUAGE/CONVENTION

When German characters are speaking to English characters their speech is accented.

When in the company of Germans, it is not.

The presumption being, amongst their own, they are all speaking German.

Young Marx premiered at The Bridge Theatre, London on 26 October 2017 with the following cast in order of speaking:

MR FLEECE, PAWNBROKER	Duncan Wisbey
KARL MARX	Rory Kinnear
SERGEANT SAVAGE	Joseph Wilkins
JENNY VON WESTPHALEN	Nancy Carroll
FRIEDRICH ENGELS	Oliver Chris
HELENE NYM DEMUTH	Laura Elphinstone
GUIDO FAWKSEY MARX	Logan Clark
Rupert Turnbull
Joseph Walker
GERT DOC SCHMIDT	Tony Jayawardena
KONRAD SCHRAMM	Eben Figueiredo
JENNY CAROLINE QUI QUI MARX	Dixie Egerickx
Matilda Shapland
Harriet Turnbull
MR GRABINER, BAILIFF	Scott Karim
MRS MULLETT, WHELK SELLER	Alana Ramsey
HELMUT, PRUSSIAN SPY	Fode Simbo
AUGUST VON WILLICH	Nicholas Burns
EMMANUEL BARTHLEMY	Miltos Yerolemou
CONSTABLE CRIMP	William Troughton
BEARDED MAN IN LIBRARY	Duncan Wisbey
MRS WHITEHEAD, LIBRARIAN	Sophie Russell
CONSTABLE SINGE	Scott Karim
PASTOR FLINT	Fode Simbo

Other parts played by members of the Company

Director	Nicholas Hytner
Designer	Mark Thompson
Lighting Designer	Mark Henderson
Music	Grant Olding
Sound Designer	Paul Arditti
Fight Director	Kate Waters
Assistant Director	Sean Linnen

Act One

SCENE ONE

(1850. A pawnbrokers. On one end of the counter, MR FLEECE is looking at paperwork. His assistant JIM is polishing a brass. MARX enters, produces the Argyll from under his coat and places it on the other end of counter.)

MR FLEECE: (Without looking up.) In a moment, Im going to ask you to bring that item over here and tell me what it is.

(MARX picks up the Argyll.)

Not yet!

(FLEECE finally looks up from his papers.)

Now, bring it over here, and tell me what it is.

(MARX delivers the ARGYLL to that bit of the counter before MR FLEECE.)

MARX: Also, its a gravy warmer, an Argyll, an original, invented by the eponymous Duke. (Also pronounced alzo.)

MR FLEECE: And what was he called?

MARX: Argyll.

MR FLEECE: Is that why its called an Argyll?

MARX: Who knows?!

MR FLEECE: Whats its value?

MARX: (Beat.) Its use value or its exchange value?

MR FLEECE: Whats the difference?

MARX: How long do you have?

MR FLEECE: Ive got all day mate.

MARX: That may not be enough time. To fix an exchange value we would need to know the socially necessary labour time required to produce this commodity with the average degree of skill und intensity currently prevalent.

MR FLEECE: (Nods to JIM to leave.) Jim!

(JIM leaves.)

MARX: Where is Jim going?

MR FLEECE: Theres always something. Love, money, netting. (Beat.) So, is this a horse?

MARX: Nein!

MR FLEECE: Good. That means we can take a butchers at its arse.

(MR FLEECE picks up the Argyll and turns it over, to look at the hallmarks.)

Lets see how much silver they reckon we got here?

MARX: Why does that interest you? The value of any commodity is an entirely social characteristic. The contribution of the silver is chimerical, arbitrary.

(MR FLEECE puts the Argyll down.)

MR FLEECE: See what I did there? I had a look at the hallmark, put it back down. Had a look, put it down. cause youve made me mind up for me. Since its entirely arbitrary, Ill give you one penny.

MARX: Is that all! Its a family heirloom.

MR FLEECE: Are you Scottish then?

MARX: Jawohl!

MR FLEECE: So whats your name then son?

MARX: Karl Heinrich Marx.

MR FLEECE: A Jew?

MARX: Yes, from a long line of rabbis, most of whom were also Jewish. Its my wife whos Scottish.

MR FLEECE: And whats your wifes name?

MARX: Frau Jenny Von Westphalen. She is the daughter of Baron Ludwig von Westphalen whose mother was Anne Wishart who was descended from the totally Scottish Earls of Argyll.

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