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...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE, by Peter Weiss. Each theater seat becomes an electric chair as Director Peter Brook and the Royal Shakespeare Company sear the senses with a high-voltage production...
...attacked Field on a California train and was about to draw his bowie knife when Field's bodyguard shot and killed him. Field went on to serve the longest term in Supreme Court history (34 years, nine months). Sarah spent the next 45 years in an insane asylum...
...soon as the insane stumble and jitter onstage with their dreadfully absent eyes, their bodily tics, their slavering mouths, their heads lolling like half-decapitated flowers, it is clear that the asylum keeper of the evening is Director Peter Brook. Abetted by the superbly disciplined Royal Shakespeare Company, Brook directs with the cool ferocity of a mad scientist, as if he were running a controlled experiment to see how much chilled sweat could be squeezed from the audience's brow. He uses every weapon in the theatrical arsenal to mount a sustained barrage on the senses. A sound track...
...fretful interruptions, emendations, and eruptive self-concerns of the asylum's inmates form a play within the play within the play. An asthenic-looking fop, playing an innocent love scene with Charlotte Corday, promptly tries to rape her. In dumb show, a single tipsy file of the insane marches to the guillotine, and their heads drop in deadly percussive succession. Stripped to the waist and kneeling, Sade is lashed by Corday with a spastic whipping motion of her hair that raises imaginative welts of erotic cruelty...
...bubbles up at odd moments-such as the moment when a husband grows so incensed at his wife for feeding him canned food that he throws her down and tries to open her head with an old-fashioned can opener. Sadly, the injured wife ends up in an insane asylum...