YOUNG MARX " Bridge Theatre
It's a clever idea by Richard Bean, to envision a story set when Karl Marx was an impecunious migrant living in the 'squalor' of Dean Street in Soho, caught between the pawnbrokers and the bailiff in a hand to mouth existence, and to pair him with his future political ally Friedrich Engels in a sort of knockabout turn like Morecambe and Wise, with a sidelong glance at the actual Marx Brothers.