Marx'sCapital
A realistic drawing in two parts, in which not everything is as it seems
“I first read Capital as a university student. Later, as a director, I became aware of the dramatic potential emanating from Marx’s sentences. Money, capital, class struggle – once given human form, these concepts reveal a drama that shapes our entire lives,” says director Attila Vidnyánszky.
The performance takes Karl Marx’s Capital (1867) as its starting point, a foundational text of twentieth-century political thought that later became a key reference for the development of the totalitarian ideology of communism.
“Capital is not merely a memento of philosophical thought, but the source of countless tragic misunderstandings. Marx’s ideas gave rise to an ideology that wounded both body and soul. Why can’t we free ourselves from this way of thinking, so deeply intertwined with hostility toward religion? The tension between the theory of political economy and the political actions justified in its name holds immense dramatic power,” the director explains. “The processes and laws Marx identified as defining features of an emerging capitalism are unfolding fully in our own time. Today, we are witnessing the dehumanizing effects of a system governed by capital. It is profoundly dramatic to recognize how the laws identified by Marx – the forces that move the world (capital) – shake the moral foundations of our existence. By treating morality as relative, they undermine the core of a dignified human life.”
This conflict takes shape on stage as a large-scale tragicomedy. The result is a danse macabre laced with elements of farce.