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Marxism for beginners

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20010409
Author:PATRICK MARMION

THE MOTHER m BAC, Battersea

PLAYWRIGHTS have interpreted the world in various ways, but Bertolt Brecht's intention was always to change it. Annie Castledine's revival of his early agitprop play from 1931 may therefore be meant as an antidote to unaligned modern cynicism.

Adapted from Maxim Gorky's novel, the play is, after all, a stern parable of awakening following an apolitical mother sucked into revolutionary activity in Russia of 1905.

Steve Trafford takes up this pedagogical mission with a plain- speaking translation explaining Marxism for beginners. Scenes include the likening of a ...

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