THE first broadcast from NT Live to the big screen at the Regent in Christchurch for 2018 will be an Encore recording of Young Marx on Thursday 25 January at 7pm from the brand new Bridge Theatre in London. The Bridge is London’s first large scale theatre to be added to London’s commercial theatre sector in 80 years and is located on the South Bank of the Thames right next to Tower Bridge. It boasts a spacious new 900 seat auditorium and was opened by former National Theatre supremo, Sir Nicholas Hytner and his colleague, Nick Starr.

Young Marx is the opening show at The Bridge so this screening at the Regent in Christchurch combines a chance to see London’s newest theatre and get an insight into one of the 19th century’s most influential political philosophers, who made London his home for much of his life and who is famously buried in Highgate Cemetery.

Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night, Green Wing) is Engels, in this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman. Recorded live at The Bridge Theatre, London, the production is directed by Nicholas Hytner and reunites the creative team behind the Broadway and West End hit comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors.

It is 1850 and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke, restless and horny, the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy.

Creditors, spies, rival revolutionary factions and prospective seducers of his beautiful wife all circle like vultures. His writing is blocked, his marriage dying, his friend Engels is in despair at his wasted genius and his only hope is a job on the railway. However, there’s still no one in the capital who can show anyone a better night out on the town than Karl Heinrich Marx!

Regent, Christchurch

01202 499199

www.regentcentre.co.uk