Word: sade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be snapped more easily than before. Meanwhile, Freud had become a household god, and the composition of the new trinity was the id, the ego and the superego. Armchair analysts lolled under many latitudinarian banners-Jung, Adler, Reich, Stekel, Krafft-Ebing, Sacher-Masoch and even the Marquis de Sade. What all of this generated was an unprecedented inquiry into the nature and needs of women as sexual beings...
Perhaps Henry IV should be more moving but if so I don't know whom to blame. A play whose theme is madness and the illusion of really should not be as easy to brush aside as this production. When Adams House did Marat-Sade two years ago it was so emotionally convincing that even the audience seemed to be going crazy. But that was two years ago and may be the audience...
...poster, psychedelically colored, shows the Seven Dwarfs, Snow White, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Cinderella and a naked Tinker Bell, and other Walt Disney characters indulging in what looks like one of the Marquis de Sade's more complicated performances. Meantime, Mickey Mouse is shooting heroin into his arm. In another poster, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Goofy are getting stoned on a water pipe...
Some of the chosen eponyms are familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
Hard and Cold. When Brook opened his shocking and magnificent Marat Sade, with Glenda playing the mad, murderous Charlotte Corday, her performance was one of the truly curdling experiences in contemporary theater; it gained her widespread attention in London and New York. It also created a mold that was both rewarding and discomfiting. "I really loathed that play," she admits. "It was so hard and cold. There was very little interaction, since all the inmates were operating on separate levels of madness. But at least by the time I left it, I didn't have to scratch for work...