Images & Sketches for Powerpoint Presentation

Here I used: watercolor paints, pencil, charcoal, photographs and collage to create these images to better explain how my Production of Howard Zinn's "Marx in Soho" would be performed and held at Highgate Cemetery for my Unit One Assessment.

'Marx In Soho' Presentation Notes

Overview
*summer months (June, July, August)
*weather issues, outside

Location
*Behind Waterlow Park
*North London
*Karl Marx's grave, buried 1883

The Play
*'Marx in Soho', 1999
*Written by historian, Howard Zinn
*One man, 70 minute play
*Karl Marx convinces the authorities of the afterlife to allow him to come back from the dead to clear his name. He appears in your city to make his case
*Zinn stated that h wrote the play to "show Marx as few people knew him, as a family man, struggling to support his wife and children"

Audience
*3 rows of about 20 chairs, total audience approx. 60

Set, Props & Costume
*suit, recognizable beard
*ghostly make up
*No set except table with lamp and books on it, beauty of cemetery is the backdrop, emphasizes the play

Lights
*Early summer evening
*Red electric lights flooding the foliage behind the grave upwards

Total Experience 
*"Enjoyable to many, interesting to others, and no doubt offensive to somebody."