Manifesto

Based on The Communist Manifesto by Kark Marx and Friedrich Engels

Directed by Janek Alexander and Choreographed by Nigel Charnock

Philosophers have only interpreted the world... The point is to change it.

In 1848 a pamphlet was published in London which was to change the course of human history for the next 150 years...

"All that is solid melts into air; all that is holy is profaned."

Volcano's production confronts you with the most influential political manifesto of our time: poetic, revolutionary, romantic, confrontational, visionary, scurrilous and prophetic.

Using the poetry of Mayakovsky, documentation from the show trials, Koestler's Darkness at Noon and works by Marx and Engels, Volcano re-examines the revolutionary tradition that began with The Communist Manifesto.


"Along with the constantly diminishing number of the magnates of capital, who usurp and monopolise all the advantages of this process of transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working class, a class ever increasing in numbers and disciplined, united, organised by the very mechanism of capitalist production itself. The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter on the mode of production which has sprung up and flourished along with it and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where the become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of private capitalist property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated." Karl Marx


Manifesto opened in 1994 and toured throughout the UK.

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