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 (1967)
"By Peter Weiss"
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In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on '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', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.
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Cast
Patrick Magee
Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson
Jean-Paul Marat
Michael Williams
Herald
Clifford Rose
Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson
Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones
Cucurucu
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Hugh Sullivan
Kokol
John Hussey
Newly Rich Lady
William Morgan Sheppard
A Mad Animal
Jonathan Burn
Polpoch
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Jeanette Landis
Rossignol
Robert Langdon Lloyd
Jacques Roux (as Rob...
John Steiner
Monsieur Dupere
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James Mellor
Schoolmaster
Henry Woolf
Father