MEDIATHEK

Karl Marx's Kapital. The Musical

Das Kapital by Karl Marx is often quoted, but rarely read.
 It’s presumptuous, visionary and remains highly topical
 today. Using a tried-and-tested genre that’s ideal for
 the masses — the musical — the team of Arnold, Komarov
 and Schröder have succeeded in making visible the «mon
 -strous» mechanisms of the free market economy and its
 impact on living conditions. The texts — complex analyses
 of the economy — mutate into tuneful songs that could
 certainly catch on. Karl Marx. Das Kapital als Musical is the
 second large-scale music theatre production by Trixa
 Arnold und Ilja Komarov, after their success with Tell
 /Ein heroisches Singspiel. They engage in cavalier fashion
 with traditional stage formats and musical genres. They
 condense libretti from literary originals, compose the
 music, and engage the ideal artists for each new
 production.