Marat/Sade (stage production)

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Marat/Sade (stage production) is Peter Brook’s groundbreaking Royal Shakespeare Company staging of Peter Weiss’s play that blends historical drama with avant-garde theatrical experimentation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf stage production
theatrical production
adaptedAs Marat/Sade (1967 film)
artForm drama
theatre
associatedWith Peter Brook
Peter Weiss
Royal Shakespeare Company
basedOn 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
linked to: Marat/Sade

play by Peter Weiss
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
director Peter Brook
featuresCharacter Jean-Paul Marat
Marquis de Sade
form play-within-a-play
genre avant-garde theatre
historical drama
political theatre
hasSubject class struggle
madness
political ideology
revolution
violence
historicalContext post-war European theatre
influenced later experimental theatre productions
influencedBy Artaudian theatre of cruelty
linked to: Theatre of Cruelty

epic theatre
languageOfPerformance English
medium live theatre
notableFor breaking the fourth wall
innovative staging
integration of music and movement
politically charged interpretation
use of ensemble physical theatre
originalLanguage German
performanceStyle ensemble
highly physical
premiereCountry United Kingdom
premiereDate 1964
premiereLocation Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon
linked to: Stratford-on-Avon
producedBy Royal Shakespeare Company
productionCompany Royal Shakespeare Company
setInPeriod French Revolution
stagedIn 1960s
theatricalCompany Royal Shakespeare Company

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Peter Brook directed Marat/Sade (stage production)
Marat/Sade fullTitle Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
linked to: Marat/Sade (stage production)