Choreography by Susy Davis
Musical Direction by P. Matthew Park

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May 5 - 29th, 2005

While imprisoned in Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade, an incorrigible man in a perpetual state of libertine dementia, stages a dramatic recreation of the death of the Jacobin firebrand Jean-Paul Marat -- stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution -- for the benefit of the asylum director and his family. What follows is a theatrical tour de force, a phantasmagoric meditation on sanity, madness and the problems of revolution.

First produced in 1964 at the Schiller Theatre in Berlin, Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade swept Europe before coming to America. It is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution. However, in this revoltionary new adaptation by Jeremy Gable, directed by Glendele Way-Agle, these are merely points of depature for a bold and startling theatrical event. Incorporating nearly every dramatic device and technique, even including song and dance, Marat.Sade is an unforgettable theatrical event unlike any other.

Postcard Photography by Deidre Schoo, Postcard Design by Josh Agle

Production Photography by Darcy Hogan

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