1972 Season
Season Staff:
Fredrick H. Thury, Artistic Director
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
1972
Vanier College Hall
The play depicts French writer and aristocrat Marquis de Sade directing a performance while institutionalized in an asylum. Relating the death of revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of Charlotte Corday, the play, also starring de Sade, sees the disturbed mental patients become increasingly unruly during the course of the story.