Ian Richardson
Jean-Paul Marat
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In the Charenton Asylum in 1808, the Marquis de Sade stages a play about the murder of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday, using his fellow inmates as actors. The director of the hospital, Monsieur Coulmier , supervises the performance, accompanied by his wife and daughter.
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Marat/Sade: Directed by Peter Brook. With Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose. In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play.
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- Drama, History, Music
- Peter Brook
- 1967-04-13
Relating the death of revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson) at the hand of Charlotte Corday (Glenda Jackson, in her first major role), the play, also starring de Sade, sees the disturbed...
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- Ian Richardson
- Peter Brook
- Royal Shakespeare Company
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Glenda Jackson, as Marat's assassin Charlotte Corday, weaves back and forth between the melancholy of her mental illness and the fire of the role she plays. Ian Richardson , as Marat, still advocate violence and revolution even though thousands have died and nothing has been accomplished.
The Marquis de Sade builds a satirical punching bag of a political opponent in his hyper-meta theatrical retelling of the downfall of Jean-Paul Marat, but even the disillusioned Marquis, with his acerbic irony and bitter polemics, can't resist finding something to revere about his straw-man foe.
