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Marat/Sade (Theatre)

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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 (often shortened to Marat/Sade, for simplicity's sake) is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss which tells the story of... well, the title sort of covers that.A brilliant play-within-a-play, the principal characters of the Tragedy are played by the inmates in a mental asylum with various wacky little quirks, ranging from narcolepsy to paranoid schizophrenia. Madness ensues. The nurses and supervisors occasionally must step in to "control" the patients. The bourgeois director of the asylum oversees the performance while accompanied by his wife and daughter. As a supporter of the Napoleonic government in place at the time of the prisoners' production, the asylum director desires for this play that he has organized for the public to see to support his patriotic views. The performers, however, rebel, often speaking lines he had wanted cut from the production.Meanwhile, the Marquis de Sade and Marat hold numerous debates about their principles and personal philosophies.Oh, and did we mention that this is also a musical?The 1967 film version, which was made by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of theatre innovator Peter Brook, is excellent. Ian Richardson and Patrick Magee head the cast as Marat and de Sade respectively.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: An early point in the musical where the inmates clamor for "Freedom" turns the call into a repeated mantra, which forces Coulmier to intervene and remind the Marquis De Sade to keep his production under control.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Charlotte has one of these. Well, if you see her as the hero. (Also, she's mentally deranged to begin with, so it's not a big jump.)
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Lawful Stupid
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Lawful Stupid: Coulmier. de Sade is clearly playing with him—as are most of the other inmates. They may be crazy, but they're not stupid.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: In ways you can't even imagine. Marat indirectly ends up mentioning the Atom Bomb.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Coulmier interrupts the performance on occasion to defend the state and government established in the fifteen years following Marat's death.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: Twofold, the depiction in the play of France following the Revolution is violent and bloody, and the inmates in the insane asylum acting out the play are often beaten or mistreated.
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Adaptational Job Change
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Adaptational Job Change: The real Coulmier was a priest instead of a bureaucrat with a wife and daughter.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: Marat. Maybe.
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Prisoner Performance
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Prisoner Performance: Inspired by the Marquis de Sade's Real Life plays that he would put on in the Asylum of Charenton with his fellow inmates as actors, the work is largely a play-within-a-play staged in the asylum's bathhouse where the inmates dramatize the story of the murder of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday and frame a debate between Marat and de Sade. As the principal actors are all suffering from mental disorders ranging from narcolepsy to paranoid schizophrenia, and, moreover, as the subject matter of the play is often controversial with the Napoleonic government, there are several disruptions throughout the performance and other obstacles to overcome. Coulmier, the head of the asylum, often has to step in and act as a censor, as he objects to some of the material of the play, framed around the end of The French Revolution - while Coulmier expects a nationalist celebration of the Revolution, the inmates demand their freedom and compare their status to that of the lower classes of France, which saw the revolution betrayed and benefitting only the bourgeoisie.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: Monsieur Dupere is played by one of Charenton's most dangerous sex maniacs. He often breaks character and tries to attack Charlotte Corday. During the end of the play he turns his attentions to Coulmier's wife and daughter.
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Drum Roll, Please
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Drum Roll, Please: A drumroll can be heard just before the dramatic execution of the King.
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority: The play being performed is about The French Revolution. Rebelling against authority is a common theme that Coulmier repeatedly tries to step in and stamp out.
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Mad Oracle
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Mad Oracle: The priest Jacques Roux.
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Minimalism
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Minimalism: The play contains elements of this. For instance, The Herald doubles as the door to Marat's living quarters and the guillotine is conveyed through sounds, instead of being a featured prop. However, the theatrical production's sets and direction are regarded as being highly intense and sensuous more than minimalist.
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Adaptational Attractiveness
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Adaptational Attractiveness: The real Coulmier was rather short and described as a hunchback.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: Imagine that Sanity is wearing just his socks, and he's stuck out in the middle of a frozen lake which is covered with a layer of oil. That kind of slippage.
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Too Kinky to Torture
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Too Kinky to Torture: de Sade gets "whipped" by Charlotte Corday.
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Chewing the Scenery
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Chewing the Scenery: The main cast are all inmates in an asylum. It goes with the job description.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Marat and de Sade trade these in their arguments about the other.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: A few, but the Herald gets to really play it up.
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The full title, 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 describes the complete setup of what is to come
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Out-of-Character Moment
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Out-of-Character Moment: The inmates occasionally break character. Notably, the character Monsieur Dupere is supposed to have a platonic relationship with Charlotte Corday, but the inmate portraying this character is a dangerous "sex maniac" who regularly attempts to attack his fellow actress. One of the most shocking is during the "Homage to Marat", when they are talking about the French peasants wanting their freedom, and one of the inmates starts weeping and saying "Let us out! We want our freedom!", prompting the rest of them to join in an actual cry for freedom. It's heartrending, because it's so unexpected and so earnest.
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Screwed by the Network
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Screwed by the Network: Invoked by the Herald, who mentions that Coulmier has edited certain "objectionable" parts of the play, and he continues to protest throughout the play.
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Monster Clown
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Monster Clown: The four-person chorus, in the film, at least, dons ugly clown makeup.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The whole play, but especially the end.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The film has some really shocking moments of these, especially with Charlotte.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: Charlotte comes to Marat's door three times. Lampshaded several times.
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Rousing Speech
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Rousing Speech: Marat makes a few of these
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Blue Blood
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Blue Blood: Literally referenced during the depiction of the execution of King Louis the XVI. After the King is "guillotined", one of the members of the Greek Chorus pours a bucket of blue paint to represent his blood.
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Fourth Wall Psych
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Fourth Wall Psych: Plenty of it.
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Executive Meddling
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Executive Meddling: Invoked. Coulmier, the Director of Charenton, often interrupts the actual play to object to its content or force changes and cuts.
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Free-Love Future
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Free-Love Future:
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Break Them by Talking
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Breaking Speech: de Sade has a few of these. Especially his discussion with Marat on the nature of Life and Death, and the nature of Nature.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: More accurately, it's a theatrical play about insane asylum inmates performing a play.
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The Pen Is Mightier
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The Pen Is Mightier: Marat wants to prove this. He doesn't.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: Marat's skin-lesions, depending on how graphic the production makes these.
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Bedlam House
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Bedlam House: The insane asylum of Charenton.
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Cloudcuckoolander
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Cloudcuckoolander: Again. House full of crazy people.
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Word of God
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Word of God: Invoked, seeing as the author is literally on board.
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Sympathy for the Devil: Whatever you might think of de Sade's writings, Weiss paints a very sympathetic (or at least more philosophical) picture of the man.
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Refuge in Audacity
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Refuge in Audacity: de Sade does this a few times, but only to shut Coulmier up.
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Lyrical Dissonance
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Lyrical Dissonance: There are some very catchy songs with scary lyrics.
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Public Execution
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Public Execution: The asylum inmates act out the public execution of the aristocrats by the guillotine during The French Revolution, followed by the execution of the King. Afterwards, the Marquis de Sade, during one of his monologues, compares the "gentleness" of the guillotine to the far more brutal public execution of Robert-François Damiens who, at a much earlier time, had attempted to assassinate Louis XV. He relates that the execution "lasted four hours while the crowd goggled," as Damiens was brutally tortured to death until he was nothing more than "a bloody torso with a nodding head."
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Reasonable Authority Figure
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Both averted and played straight. Coulmier obviously is acting as the censor for the play, and in addition to being a Napoleonic lackey. Generally however, he is too dim to notice the amount of subversive messages both Marat and Sade can slip into their speeches. Throughout the course of the play the Herald must add various speeches praising how the masses must listen to the wise leader's advice so they won't become a mob. However, the end of the play shows that for all of his faults, he does have a somewhat legitimate point.
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Acting for Two
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Acting for Two: invoked The ensemble cast portrays the inmates at an insane asylum who are, in turn, playing other characters within a play written by the Marquis de Sade. In the prologue of the play, the Herald introduces both the characters and the patients playing them but blurs the line, somewhat, when introducing the priest Jacques Roux but not the actor playing him. Throughout the play, the actors slip in and out of 'character' (between the person they're playing, and the person that person is playing).
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Go Among Mad People
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Go Among Mad People: It says something about the background-level of Crazy, when the Marquis de Sade is doing this.
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Greek Chorus
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Greek Chorus: The Herald and the vocalists, Cucurucu, Polpoch, Kokol, and Rossignol, who comment on the debates between Sade and Marat and the actions of the principal characters with rhyming dialogue and intermittent song interludes.
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Writer on Board
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Writer on Board: de Sade both wrote the play being performed by the inmates and is a character within the play, as well.
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Aside Glance
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Aside Glance: The film is filled with these, particularly from the Herald, de Sade, Marat, and Coulmier.
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: This is discussed in depth, in regards to The French Revolution in particular and the concept of Revolution in general.
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Aside Comment
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Aside Comment: Many comments are directed straight at the audience, mostly by the Herald, de Sade, and Marat.
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Interactive Narrator
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Interactive Narrator: Both the Herald (in the more usual sense) and de Sade.
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Rhymes on a Dime
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Rhymes on a Dime: The Herald speaks solely through rhyme throughout the play-within-a-play being performed by the Charenton inmates. Even when the play is frequently interrupted by Coulmier, the asylum's overseer, the Herald is able to issue responses in rhyming verse without ever breaking character.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: Historically the Marquis de Sade (or Citizen Sade as he was called then) gave the eulogy for Marat's funeral (he compared Marat to Jesus) and apparently he and Marat interacted a couple of times. Likewise, Sade was imprisoned in Charenton on one of Napoleon's whims and he did stage plays in the asylum as part of Coulmier's therapy.
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