Marat/Sade
From: Friday, 14th October 2011
To: Saturday, 5 November 2011
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Synopsis
Full title: The persecution and assassination of the Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade. Set in 1808, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, the Marquis is directing a play at an asylum. To educate and rehabilitate the inmates, the Marquis presents a musical pageant of the Terror of Paris, culminating in the murder of Jean-Paul Marat at the hands of Charlotte Corday. First performed in England in 1964 by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Our Review:
Simon Tavener - 21 October 2011
Marat/Sade was something of a succès de scandale when it was first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company back in the 1960s. It is clear that director Anthony Neilson has sought to deliver another provocative version of the piece as part of the 50th anniversary season in Stratford.
In the decades since Peter Brook first directed Peter Weiss’ play, audiences have become harder to shock. We have been exposed to more intense and explicit ideas and imagery and so it is much tougher to elicit a powerful reaction from jaded theatregoers. Neilson has clearly tried his hardest.
There are so many ideas bouncing around the production, so many attempts to shock, so many opportunities taken to be outrageous that the moments that are really powerful are lost in a whirlpool of excess. Nothing we see on stage is that dangerous or ground-breaking and so it almost feels predictable.
I can see the logic by updating the play ...
Latest User Review
avw - 8 November 2011:
Outstanding ensemble performance but for what? a muddled interpretation that threw in the kitchen sink, sorry maybe that should of been the looted telly, for good measure. Bringing it up to date is not a sin, but why? Are today's audiences so incapable of understanding the metaphor presented by Weiss in the 60's that every anti-capitalist and bourgeois sin has to be hammered home? ...
Cast
Arsher Ali
Maya Barcot
Liz Crowther
Kammy Darweish
Imogen Doel
Christopher Ettridge
Lisa Hammond
Lanre Malaolu
Nathaniel Martello-White
Andrew Melville
Simeon Moore
Harry Myers
Theo Ogundipe
Oliver Rix
Golda Rosheuvel
Amanda Wilkin
Creative
Peter Weiss (Author)
Royal Shakespeare Company (Company)
Anthony Neilson (Director)
Garance Marneur (Design)
Chahine Yavroyan (Lighting)
Anna Morrissey (movement) (Director)
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