The Biblio File

The Telegraph is reporting that director He Nian plans to stage an opera version of Karl Marx’s seminal work, Das Kapital:

Mr He, who is best known for a stage adaptation of a martial-arts spoof, plans to open the production in Shanghai next year, and will borrow elements from Broadway musicals and Las Vegas shows. There will, however, be no trivialization of the book’s core messages: an economist from a local university has been asked to ensure that it remains intellectually respectful of Marxist Doctrine.

I’m all for a version that remains “intellectually respectful” to Marx, but let’s not be too quick to dismiss the possibilities of some martial-arts tie-in. Proletariat ninjas would be awesome.