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
By Peter Weiss
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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Patrick Magee
Marquis de Sade
Ian Richardson
Jean-Paul Marat
Michael Williams
Herald
Clifford Rose
Monsieur Coulmier
Glenda Jackson
Charlotte Corday
Freddie Jones
Cucurucu
Hugh Sullivan
Kokol
John Hussey
Newly Rich Lady
William Morgan Sheppard
A Mad Animal
Jonathan Burn
Polpoch
Jeanette Landis
Rossignol
Robert Langdon Lloyd
Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)
John Steiner
Monsieur Dupere
James Mellor
Schoolmaster
Henry Woolf
Father
John Harwood
Voltaire
Leon Lissek
Lavoisier
Susan Williamson
Simone Evrard
Carol Raymont
Patient
Mary Allen
Patient
