Marat/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.

Music Drama History

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)

Brenda Kempner

(Madame Coulmier)

Mark Jones

(Mother)

Maroussia Frank

(Patient)

Tamara Fuerst

(Patient)

Sheila Grant

(Patient)

Lynn Pinkney

(Patient)

Ian Hogg

(Military Representative)

Ruth Baker

(Mademoiselle Coulmier)

Michael Farnsworth

(Patient)

Guy Gordon

(Patient)

Michael Percival

(Patient)

Heather Canning

(Nun)

Jennifer Tudor

(Nun)

Tim Hardy

(Guard (as Timothy Hardy))

Stanford Trowell

(Guard)