Reviews

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 Richard Peaslee, Peter Brook, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Weiss, Geoffrey Skelton

duarshe's review

dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Sexual harassment

mellamoger's review

adventurous emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

elena_alexa's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

sookieskipper's review

4.0

Speechless.

It isn't an easy play to review. It isn't literature that can be easily dissected to the semi-plot that the title of the play betrays. The beauty comes in the setting. It comes with the distance the main characters place themselves on stage - both physically and as characters. They share monologues, righteous moral standards and a prison between them. The verses are almost always philosophical meditations which can be seen as bunch of pretentious lines or Marxist agenda. As the underlying theme is necessity of revolution, Weiss touches upon people and their king and the madness it must take for a revolution to spring.

Oh, the irony of it all? The actors who are performing this play are in an asylum.

aoutrance's review

3.0

3.5 stars.

When meta meets history meets poetry meets absurdism, we get this. I'm still not entirely certain I fully understand the scope of it.

yew's review

2.0

if it wasn't assigned reading i probably. wouldn't have gotten past page 3 but ok