SLU presents "Marx in Soho" tonight at 7 p.m.
September 17, 2007
"With 'passion, humanity and humor,' Howard Zinn's play explores
the human side of one of history's most influential political
figures," writes Shawn Bingham, assistant professor of Sociology at
Saint Leo. "If you are interested in social change, politics,
inequality, or simply want an entertaining evening, come out to see
this important play."
The play's story line as
described by the Iron Age Theatre: "Frustrated with what he sees
and hears from our world, Karl Marx returns to earth for one hour
to defend the relevance of his ideas and highlight the serious
social issues facing the world today. Agitating the authorities of
the afterlife for the opportunity to clear his name, Karl Marx...
launches into a passionate, funny, and moving defense of his life
and political ideas."
Playwright Howard Zinn was educated at Columbia University in New
York and has also been a history fellow at Harvard University and a
visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of
Bologna. In the late 1960s, he began teaching at Boston University
in the political science department. Zinn and Noam Chomsky of MIT
were among the nation's most prominent academics in opposition to
the war in Vietnam.
Professor Zinn has won numerous awards and honors including The
Thomas Merton Award, The Eugene V. Debs Award, The Upton Sinclair
Award and The Lannan Literary Award.
Among his twenty books and plays are Disobedience and Democracy,
The Politics of History, and the seminal, celebrated A People's
History of the United States: 1492 to the Present.
Actor Bob Weick's credits include Gavin Miller in According To
Goldman with Philadelphia Theatre Company and Wait! with ESP at
Theatre Catalyst. He has performed with Civic Theatre, Pennsylvania
Playhouse, Country Gate, Triangle Theatre, Theatre Outlet, and most
notably with Iron Age Theatre in Of Mice and Men and Terra Nova
which earned him a Barrymore Nomination, Best Ensemble.
For more information about the performance, please contact the
Office of Public Relations, Saint Leo University, at (352) 588-8572
or send an email to news@saintleo.edu.
