Committed . . . Again; WSC Opens Challenging, Provoking `Marat/Sade'

The Washington Post | March 19, 1998| | Copyright

As the wicked Marquis in "Marat/Sade," Brian Hemmingsen even lolls threateningly.

This revival of the notorious gonzo theater piece of the '60s, which opened last night at the Washington Shakespeare Company, is the second recent opportunity Washington audiences have had to visit with the father of sadism in his lodgings in the insane asylum of Charenton: Floyd King won a Helen Hayes Award for his high-flying performance as de Sade in Woolly Mammoth's "Quills" two seasons ago. Where King's Marquis was an obscene sprite, Hemmingsen's is malevolently heavy of body and spirit, weighted down, ...

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