Let’s face it: “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” sounds like a daunting reading ...

by Henry Livings." That was the long and the short of it. The first play, generally known as Marat/Sade, was a dispute on the French Revolution, and an assassination story as filtered through a ...

The ensemble cast of “Marat/Sade” has the unique responsibility of playing characters that are playing characters themselves, from before audiences are seated until after they leave. (Craig Schwartz / ...

But the company stumbles with its revival of the meta-theatrical "Marat/Sade." Helmer and CTH exec director Christopher McElroen gets so focused on one half of this rarely seen play that he leaves ...

Marat/Sade is not your typical Tony-winner for Best Play. Its Broadway premiere, a transfer of director Peter Brooks' 1964 West End production, was both revered and ridiculed, exhilarating those ...

Jabbering and gesticulating. Young actors tend to love the chance to get in-your-face with extreme behavior, as in Balagan Theatre’s “Marat/Sade.”Huddled within the confines of a chain-link ...

The play "breathes." Marat (Clinton Kimbrough) hunkers in a large bathtub at the center, periodically approached by Corday (Lisa Richards) and Sade (Frederick Kimball). The patients sprawl ...