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
Music
Drama
History
By Peter Weiss
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.
1967-02-22
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Cast
Director
Peter Brook
Patrick Magee as Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson as Jean-Paul Marat
Michael Williams as Herald
Clifford Rose as Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones as Cucurucu
John Hussey as Newly Rich Lady
William Morgan Sheppard as A Mad Animal
Jonathan Burn as Polpoch
Robert Langdon Lloyd as Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)
John Steiner as Monsieur Dupere
Henry Woolf as Father
Leon Lissek as Lavoisier
Mark Jones as Mother
Maroussia Frank as Patient
Ian Hogg as Military Representative
Michael Farnsworth as Patient
Michael Percival as Patient
Heather Canning as Nun