Word: marat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlantic, new ideas seem to have deserted playwrights to lodge with directors. Of these, Peter Brook, a man of agile intellect and strong disciplinary instincts, is incomparably the most influential. He may be more of a comet than a planet, but currently light follows wherever he streaks. His Marat/ Sade, with its writhing choreographic movement and untrammeled vocabulary of sound, was the first step toward a revolution in drama: making the theater a director's medium...
Peter Weiss, author of Marat/ Sade and The Investigation, is best known as one of the more strident practitioners of the theater of fact. Therefore it should come as no surprise that this novel contains little fancy; it is frankly and almost completely autobiographical. Like his plays, Exile is a characteristically raw and intensely passionate statement. Weiss's first-person hero is a German-born half Jew who at 18 leaves his country to get away from the Nazis. He subsequently sojourns in England, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and Sweden (where Weiss now lives). But the title refers not so much...
...Marat Robespierre
...Paine and now Futz!, which opened Off-Broadway last week, have provided farcical variations on the mood and style of Marat/Sade. The moans and hisses of the patients have become a crescendo of grunts, screams and belches that resembles feeding time at the zoo. The naked backside of Marat seems to have emboldened a score of males and females to face the audience topless and bottomless, an unforeseen threat to costume designers. The writhings and stomping of Marat/Sade's insane have inspired a corybantic kind of choreography in which the dancers become as hopelessly intertwined as the Laoco...
Directed by England's Peter Brook (Marat / Sade) and acted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Tell Me Lies comes to the screen with impeccable artistic credentials. But the movie has barely begun its protest against the Viet Nam war before its righteous indignation dissolves into chaos...