Word: sadeness
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...sultry voice and jazzy arrangements have led some to compare her with vocalists of a bygone era, but Sade, 26, cites instead such contemporary influences as Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Joni Mitchell. Whatever her sources, the Nigerian-born, English-bred singer has cut a unique groove for herself. Sade (pronounced Shar-day) saw her 1984 debut album, Diamond Life, go platinum while her second, Promise, is shooting up the charts, and her current eight-city U.S. tour is sold out. She has also been named one of the world's ten most elegant women by Elle magazine. Pretty good...
...fact that Sade did not wear blue jeans in all her videos...
This is Weiss's key point. Man is a brute and he always will be; his ideological fervor is only inspired by latent lust and violence. As Sade himself quips, "People join revolutions when the adrenaline builds up." The radical soapbox priest, Jacques Roux, is played by a vociferous, apoplectic inmate (Kristen Gasser) who is restrained by a gag. Aroused by Corday's ghoulish description of a beheading she witnessed in Paris, the patients play at guillotining each other, tossing about a large red ball--a dismembered head--and tittering like demons...
...same token, Sade's scandalous love of physical torment overshadows his political convictions. In the famous whipping scene, for example, he strips to the waist and orders his hands bound. Summoning Corday to his side, he provides her with a whip and drawls: "And even now I should like to have this beauty here, who stands there so expectantly, and let her beat me while I talk to you about the revolution." The audience and other inmates gasp in horror and anticipation. Sade proceeds to crumple, groan and writhe on the floor, creating a sensation but garbling every word...
Although the political ideas are overwhelmed by the tide of general insanity, the play on the whole is gripping and provocative. Simonne Evrard sits in her spectators' box, coolly removed from the raging inmates. In one corner, Marat squats in his tub. In the other, Sade leans casually against a pedestal. The other players in the historical drama form a ring. Behind them are the rest of the patients, sitting on benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual...