Reviews: Karl Marx's Beard

From: The Scotsman | Date: November 27, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Theatre: KARL MARX'S BEARD ***

TRAVERSE, EDINBURGH

EITHER the Traverse audience's visible preference for home-grown Edinburgh shows is getting out of hand, or the new fashion for political theatre has reached a point where the mere mention of Karl Marx is enough to create a hot ticket. At any rate, an unusually large audience turned up at Traverse Two on Thursday for the first of three performances of this latest play by Edinburgh writer Raymond Raszkowski Ross, a slightly surreal Waiting for Godot-like two- hander in which two veterans of Soviet communism called Boris and Karloff, banged up ...

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