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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, is a hypodermic needle plunged directly into the playgoer's emotional bloodstream. It hypnotizes the eye and bruises the ear. It shreds the nerves; it vivisects the psyche-and it may scare the living daylights out of more than a few playgoers...
...endless title too literally explains, it is a play within a play-a dramatization of the dagger slaying of the French revolutionary leader who was killed in his bath by Charlotte Corday. (Actually, the enlightened keeper of the Charenton asylum did believe in the therapeutic value of having inmates act out plays, and Sade, who was incarcerated there for a time, contributed some scripts...
...dates back to 1962. Shortly after he was inaugurated President, Bosch began ignoring Miolán and started undercutting the party organization in favor of playing messiah to everyone, including the extreme left. When Bosch was ousted by the Dominican army in 1963 and both men took asylum in Puerto Rico, the split grew wider. After the April civil war erupted, Miolán publicly called for intervention to "prevent the genocide of the defenseless population of our capital," and later he launched an anti-Bosch whisper campaign throughout the country...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. Because his novels reflected so clearly the injustices of Soviet dictatorship, Author Tarsis was unjustly committed to a mental asylum. In this bitter novel he outlines the misery of his fellow inmates...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. A bitter novel about a group of Russian intellectuals languishing in an insane asylum because they dared oppose Soviet leaders...