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
“By Peter Weiss”
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In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on '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', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
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A fever dream of revolution and performance. The asylum walls blur as patients embody historical figures, questioning sanity, art, and the nature of control in a visually arresting, intellectually dense spectacle.
unsettlingprovocativechaoticintellectualvisceralsteadytheatricalavant-gardeBrechtianperiod dramaart vs. realitypolitical dissentmadnesspower dynamics
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