Volume 6, Number 1 · February 3, 1966
Sade's Theater
By Stuart Hampshire
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. Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Peter Brook
at the Martin Beck Theater
There can be no doubt that Peter Weiss's play The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade provides a theatrical experience of the first order: at least this is true of the play as it is performed at the Martin Beck Theater. This is evident fact; thereafter argument and opinion begin. This play, in this production, ought to be seen. It gives pleasure and it is interesting. The question is: Why and what is interesting about it?
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