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Marat/Sade Paperback – 1 June 1969

by Peter Weiss (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
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No play by a German since Brecht has enjoyed the success of Marat/Sade, and its author Peter Weiss has emerged as one of the most remarkable of the post-war generation of German writers. This English version by Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell was the text used in Peter Book's brilliant production for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which was undoubtedly the theatrical event of 1964 in London. It has also been produced all over the world by the most outstanding directors - Konrad Swinarski in Berlin, Ingmar Bergman in Stockholm, Roger Planchon in Paris, and many more. The RSC's work in establishing Antonin Artuad's conception of 'Theatre of Cruelty' found its climactic expression in this powerful and savage play, in which the discipline of verse heightens the emotional impact. The combination of sheer entertainment, Sadean philosophy and the range of theatrical shock techniques leaves the audience limp but excited at the end of the evening. The published text allows the reader to see how skilfully the author has dramatised the paradox of Sade, a black saint whose humanity must be set against the horrors of his imagination.
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  1. Print length
    124 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
  4. Publication date
    1 June 1969
  5. Dimensions
    13 x 0.8 x 19.6 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0714503614
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0714503615
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd; 5th edition (1 June 1969)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 124 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714503614
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714503615
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 0.8 x 19.6 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

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Babs
5.0 out of 5 stars We want our revolution now!
Reviewed in the United States on 14 December 2017
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I forgot how good this is! "We want our rights and we don't care how. We want our revolution now."
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Charles S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Si vous avez jamais l'occasion
Reviewed in France on 2 June 2015
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de voir cette pièce... dans la mise en scène de Weiss lui-même courrez-y ! Je l'ai vu il y a plus de 25 ans et j'en garde toujours de vives images et de très beaux souvenirs.
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Davide Ferrara
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute classic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2014
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Weiss' work is known to be a classic and both the adaptation, the "story within a story" and how it is actually put into a movie (a play originally) is brilliant. Very well done indeed. Not only is the story original and well carried through, but it provides a very interesting insight into the interpretation of two deep minds with diffeerent views. Although it benefits the reader / watcher if they have done some background reading not only on Sade and Marat, but also on Libertinism and the French Revolution more generally, such research is well worth the time for the full end effect ot yields. And in any event, having such understanding should be common knowledge anyway.
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Mr. J. N. Plant
5.0 out of 5 stars In a 19th century Psychiatric Ward
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2011
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The play copy that I bought celebrates Weiss's drama of the Marquis de Sade. He had extraordinary depraved ideas of sexual pleasure. For this, despite being an aristocrat in the privileged French society of pre-Revolutionary France he was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum. It was there that he created dramas for the inmates to participate in. They never actually enacted the story of Marat's murder in his bath by Charlotte Corday but they might have done.
It became a celebrated drama in the 1960s when Peter Brook directed it with Glenda Jackson in the cast. However Weiss was not interested in a recreation of the past but was seeking much more.And there we enter the Theatre of Cruelty of Antonin Artaud.
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Michael Costello
5.0 out of 5 stars What a Play!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2014
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Written by Weiss in response to the destruction of Europe by Nazi ideology, this play examines what it is to be driven by revolutionary ideals. It is funny, irreverent, playful and deeply disturbing because it is rooted in a madness that follows no logic.
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