WSC's `Marat/Sade' is maddeningly great.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Theater)

The Washington Times | March 20, 1998| | Copyright

Any discussion of Peter Weiss' "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade" has to begin with the word "revolution."

The play is set in 1808, but the play within the play - written by de Sade and performed by maniacs - unfolds during the French Revolution. The European Weiss completed the play in 1964, and the Royal Shakespeare Company's staging (which quickly came to the United States and was quickly filmed) capitalized on the social rebellion that was in ...

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