SUNY Potsdam's Department of Theatre and Dance will present the play Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss this week. The show opens in the College Theater in... Mar 28, 2012 — SUNY Potsdam's Department of ...
The company previously presented the play in 1964 in a production directed by Peter Brook. Jasper Britton has previously appeared with the RSC in Gregory Doran's productions of The Taming of the Shrew ...
“Marat/Sade,” Peter Weiss’ violent, absurd, revolutionary drama, is both a wonder and headache. It’s a play within a play of the most perverse sort—the death of a radical written by a libertine and ...
Theatregoers have been walking out of a ‘filthy and depraved’ Royal Shakespeare Company production in their droves, disgusted by its scenes of nudity, violence and rape. On one night, 80 left ...
A community theater that tackles a production of 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 ...
Artistic censorship, despite the Constitution’s First Amendment guarantee of free speech, has long been part of the ideological tug of war in the United States. Performance artists Karen Finley, Tim ...
THE ELEVATION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE to the dignity of a great moral philosopher is something fairly new; and it still seems paradoxical. To the average reader of his novels the philosophical passages ...