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...conversation piece of 1965-66 will almost certainly be last season's London sensation−The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. The author is a German named Peter Weiss, just one of the foreign playwrights likely to lend savor and distinction to the season. They include John Osborne, whose Inadmissible Evidence was compared flatteringly by British reviewers to his Look Back in Anger. Then there is Christopher Plummer in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, a morality...
...London's biggest sensation is a play about the Marquis de Sade, written by a little-known German playwright named Peter Weiss. De Sade is a prisoner in a lunatic asylum during the French Revolution. He holds up the cynical end of long philosophical discussions with the revolutionary Marat, who sits in a tub. Under De Sade's influence, the other inmates-male lechers, burnt-out whores, renegade priests, and varied slobbering maniacs-weave through a kind of play within the play, which ends with the death of Marat. He is stabbed in his tub by the patriot...
...full title of this work is 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. Although it has been variously interpreted as a study in meaninglessness and a parable of Hitlerism, few people pretend to understand it. It is nonetheless a theatergoing must. If you live in London and have not seen it, the thing to say is, "No, but I have read the title...
...Except perhaps for the occasion when the French Revolution in 1789 turned on its own former heroes, and all over Paris the busts of Dictator Jean-Paul Marat were smashed, while his body was taken from the Pantheon and thrown into the Montmartre cesspool...
Dipping Sitz. As for the bathtub, one of the more notable types was the slipper or boot bath, the comfortable contraption in which Marat was assassinated by Charlotte Corday. In the 19th century, one bathed according to the nature of his ailments. A sitz, or semicuphim, bath was recommended for congestion of the brain, and a "dipping sitz," did wonders for "nervous debility and a relaxed condition of the generative parts." An overheated brain could be cooled by a foot bath, but bathers were warned to keep their toes in motion...