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
Drama in Two Acts
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat / Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Drama in Two Acts
Peter Weiss’s play keeps close to historical facts and is founded on authentic material, but remains as far from a historical play as possible. Life and death of Jean Paul Marat are depicted as a game inside the game, as theatre inside the theatre, thirteen years after his death in the asylum of Charenton.
Peter Weiss’s play keeps close to historical facts and is founded on authentic material, but remains as far from a historical play as possible. Life and death of Jean Paul Marat are depicted as a game inside the game, as theatre inside the theatre, thirteen years after his death in the asylum of Charenton.
»Peter Weiss is one of the most interesting dramatists writing now […] To accept his work plain is to miss the whole point; he seems to want to put on stage huge explosions of the instinctual life, instincts that have become politicized, but are not merely politics.« Elizabeth Hardwick, The New York Review of Books
»Must be counted among the most important European authors of the 20th century.« The Complete Review
»Peter Weiss is one of the most interesting dramatists writing now […] To accept his work plain is to miss the whole point; he seems to want to put on stage huge explosions of the instinctual life, instincts that have become politicized, but are not merely politics.« Elizabeth Hardwick, The New York Review of Books
»Must be counted among the most important European authors of the 20th century.« The Complete Review
1968, 160 pages
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Peter Weiss
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Peter Weiss (1916 – 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker. He is best known for his plays Marat/Sade and Die Ermittlung, as well as the monumental three-volume historical novel Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. Born in Germany in 1916, he began his career as visual artist, studying at the Prague Art Academy in the late 1930s. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland, his family moved to Sweden where Weiss would spend the rest of his life, becoming a Swedish citizen in 1946. His work won many major German literary awards and Peter Brook’s production of Marat/Sade received the Tony Award for Best Play in 1966.
Peter Weiss
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Peter Weiss (1916 – 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and experimental filmmaker. He is best known for his plays...
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