Marat/Sade
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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, usually shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss. The work was first published in German.
Marat/Sade
Marat/Sade production at the University of California, San Diego, 2005, directed by Stefan Novinski
Marat/Sade production at the State University of New York at Fredonia, 2008, directed by James Ivey
Marat/Sade production at the Theatre of NOTE, 2000, directed by Brad Mays
Peter Weiss
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Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance.
Weiss speaking during the acceptance ceremony for the Bremen Literature Prize, 1982
Peter Weiss 1918.
Production of The Investigation at the Staatstheater Nuremberg, 2009 (photography: Marion Buehrle)