A newly-rich lady Broadway The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade 1965 Abbot Broadway The ...

The madness of the French Revolution and the madness of the everyday overlap and intertwine in “Marat/Sade,” the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of Peter Weiss’ 1963 play ...

In 1995, Doug Wright wrote "Quills" for the stage and won an Obie for it. It was a brainy piece of Grand Guignol about the Marquis de Sade's stay at the Charenton insane asylum. The scintillating ...

The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, by Peter Weiss, is a hypodermic needle plunged directly ...

By Sandra C. Dillard Denver Post Theater Critic. Sept. 23 , 2000 - One of history's best battles over freedom of expression vs. censorship could have taken place in a lunatic asylum - or at least that ...

Set in 1808 in a French insane asylum, the avant-garde 1963 play revolves around de Sade staging one of his plays with fellow inmates as actors. "Because de Sade was a marquis, he had his own ...

From his sumptuously appointed cell at the Charenton asylum, we hear the asylum’s most notorious patient, the Marquis de Sade (played by “Shine’s” Geoffrey Rush), ...

Explore Daniel Joseph Martinez IF YOU DRINK HEMLOCK, I SHALL DRINK IT WITH YOU or A BEAUTIFUL DEATH; player to player, pimp to pimp. (As performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the ...

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 Broadway in 1967 - The Persecution and ...