Word: sade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role-could hardly be more distant from Scofield's last two productions, Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Gogol's The Government Inspector. Staircase is an offbeat black comedy about a homosexual "marriage"; Scofield plays a middle-aged barber; his partner is Patrick Magee, who played Sade in the London and Broadway companies of Marat /Sade...
...legal morality" has also affected publishers' marketing practices. A representative of Grove Press (which has published Naked Lunch, the complete works of the Marquis de Sade, and The Story of O, as well as A Secret Life) said his publishing house avoids suits by pricing a book out of the large commercial market. It would be difficult to ban a $30 book because the publisher can argue that it won't be bought for kicks...
...great-great-great-grandson was scandalized. So he brought suit in a Paris court to have his ancestor's name deleted from the title, and Judge Max Leboulanger quickly agreed. "Damaging to the family's good name," ruled the magistrate. So, thanks to the Comte Xavier de Sade, an eminently proper gentleman farmer from Condé-en-Brie, the name of his peculiar forebear, the Marquis de Sade, was ordered removed from the billboards advertising the Paris production of Marat Sade. Protested Producer Tony Azzi: "Real sadism...
...expense of marching scenes and horas. But there are other problems. Kimball and Kimbrough, while excellent, are all too evidently acting toward their roles from their personalities (which shouldn't exist); the result is a lag in the first act that is enhanced by the lengthy argument between Sade and Marat. This is fairly tedious, since the play doesn't want to give ideas, but only imitations of ideas, swathed in anger and spectacle. The debate is something a callous director could cut down, a careless director here takes seriously and a really alert one would accelerate; it should...
...excitement is relentless. Jacques Roux (Robert Fields), the mad priest of the insurrection, bursts in straitjacketed and has to be crushed. Deperret (Joseph Hindy), an "erotomaniac" whom Brook equipped with a perpetual erection, urges Charlotte to return to Caen; he forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements...