He writes the new "Faust". He is just getting by. He is looking for an apartment after he and his family were evicted from Dean Street. He discusses with comrades, with the forefather Abraham as well as with animated pictures of construction workers. He treats himself to hydrotherapy. He is reflected in the windows of sex stores, wanders through Moscow nightclubs, winks at us from pictures. He sits with Jenny in Hampstead and watches a live broadcast of the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Then he switches to Dallas - or another endless series from a new world subject to the laws of the market.

He eludes us. Founder of scientific socialism. Philosopher and poet. Prophet and deceiver. Loving father. Sad clown. Devil! Karl Marx. It is said that he had a more fundamental influence on our present day than any other modern intellectual. He fought for justice and solidarity - and yet we know him primarily as the inspirer of cruel dictatorships. What do we really know about him? And why should we even want to know anything about him today?

Director: Jan Mikulášek
Dramaturgy: Martin Sládeček
Stage design: Marek Cpin
Video: Ondřej Kocar
Assistant director: Anna Magdalena Pavlicová
Assistant stage designer: Vendula Klímová
Stage management: Hana M. Senková
Photography: David Konečný

Supertitling: Stefanie Bose

Cast
Karl - Dalibor Buš
Friedrich - Dominik Teleky
Jenny - Markéta Matulová
Jennynchen - Zdislava Pechová
Lenchen - Gabriela Štefanová j.h.
Weitling - Vladimír Hauser
Freddy, reviewer - Viktor Kuzník j.h.
Policeman, landlord, Marx and others - Dušan Hřebíček
Porter, Marxist, orator and others - Matouš Benda

The guest performance of the Divadlo Husa na Provázku takes place as part of the theater partnership with the Schaubühne Lindenfels.

An event of the Schaubühne Lindenfels in cooperation with the Department of International Cooperation of the City of Leipzig and the City Partnership Association Leipzig - Brno e. V.
Supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture and the City of Brno. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.