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SUMMARY:Puente Theatre Presents Wordplay 2014: Marat/Sade
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/puente-theatre-presents-wordplay-2014-maratsade/
LOCATION:Belfry Theatre :: 1291 Gladstone Victoria, V8T 1G5
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Marat/Sade by: Peter Weiss=0D=0A=
Translated by: Geoffrey Skelton with lyric adaptation by Adrian Mitchell=0D=0A=
Directed by: Julian Cervello=0D=0A=
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Marat/Sade (Germany)=0D=0A=
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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, usually shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.  =0D=0A=
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The work was first published in German. Incorporating dramatic elements characteristic of both Artaud and Brecht, it is a bloody and unrelenting depiction of class struggle and human suffering which asks whether true revolution comes from changing society or changing oneself.  Marat/Sade is set in 1808 and concerns a performance by members of the asylum in which the Marquis de Sade was incarcerated from 1801 to 1814.  At the warden’s suggestion, de Sade directs his fellow inmates in a dramatic re-creation of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat in 1793.  What follows is an intense dialectical contest between de Sade and Marat.  According to Weiss, de Sade personifies anarchy, self-indulgence, and individualism, while Marat, a pre-Marxist revolutionary, believes that the end justifies the means, no matter how violent the means may be.
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