Young Marx is a comedy by award-winning playwright Richard Bean. It is set in 1850's London, where the revolutionary Karl Marx is hiding in Dean Street, Soho.
In 2011 Richard became the first playwright to win the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for two plays, The Heretic and One Man, Two Guvnors. The New York production of One Man, Two Guvnors was awarded the 2012 Outer Critics’ Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play. His recent credits include Kiss Me (Hampstead), The Nap (Sheffield Crucible), Great Britain (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham: The Musical (Adelphi Theatre) and Pitcairn (Chichester Minerva Theatre/Shakespeare’s Globe). Richard’s other work includes Under the Whaleback (Royal Court. George Devine Award 2002), The Heretic (The Royal Court. Evening Standard Best New Play 2011), Honeymoon Suite (Pearson Play of the Year), Harvest (Critic’s Circle Best New Play), The House of Games (from David Mamet’s film), a new version of Moliere’s The Hypochondriac, The Big Fellah (Out of Joint), England People Very Nice (National Theatre), The Mentalists (National Theatre), The English Game (Headlong), Up on Roof and Pub Quiz is Life (Hull Truck), In the Club (Hampstead), The God Botherers (Bush Theatre) and Mr England (Sheffield Crucible). His radio plays include Unsinkable, Robin Hood’s Revenge, Of Rats and Men. Clive Coleman is a barrister turned BBC News Legal Correspondent and award-winning comedy writer. His television comedy credits include Spitting Image, Dead Ringers, and Chambers, his Radio 4 and BBC1 sitcom about barristers starring John Bird and Sarah Lancashire. Coleman and Bean also collaborated on Great Britain for the National Theatre, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He has also been a Times columnist, written for the Guardian and Independent and presented BBC programmes including Panorama (BBC 1), Law in Action and Profile (Radio 4).
Richard Bean is a popular writer who has maintained his
intellectual integrity while entertaining theatregoers.
*British Theatre Guide*
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