Richard Bratby

Gleefully silly: Scottish Opera’s Marx in London! reviewed

Plus: a baffling production of Rachmaninoff's first opera

Alasdair Elliott as Friedrich Engels and Roland Wood as Karl Marx in Scottish Opera's production of Jonathan Dove's Marx in London! Image: James Glossop  
issue 24 February 2024

A bloke was working the queue outside the Theatre Royal, selling a newspaper called the Communist. ‘Marxist ideas, alive today!’ he shouted into the Glasgow drizzle. Was he part of the show; a Graham Vick-style touch of Total Theatre? In any case, he didn’t seem to be shifting many units.

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