Comments on: Marat/Sade online

By: Palomino

Palomino — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:27:00 +0000

So Sucker Punch wasn’t an original idea?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:54:00 +0000

And the constantly masturbating inmate?

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:31:00 +0000

Marat, we’re poor…and the poor stay poor….Marat, don’t make us wait anymore….we want our rights, and we don’t care how….we want a revolution, NOW.

Sung in Judy Collins’ honey dulcet tones. Talk about a study in contrasts.

By: shadowfirebird

shadowfirebird — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:08:00 +0000

I shared this with my other half, who has theatre in her blood Apparently it has a rep based somewhat on the title, something like that Fairport Convention song.

I was relieved to discover that during a production the cast tend to just refer to it as “The Persecution”…

By: Noddy Ninetythree

Noddy Ninetythree — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:12:00 +0000

this disc is one of the prizes in my dvd library… Current 93 sampled this thing heavily back in the ’80s

By: lorq

lorq — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Incredible play. I’ve seen it twice — once as a very good high school production and once as a local community theater production. About ten years separated the two performances — and each time, the play was *totally* relevant to what was going on in the political news of the time. Really amazingly intelligent show.

By: Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:27:00 +0000

My daring high-school drama teacher staged a production of this. I played the Marquis de Sade. I was “whipped” on stage each night by the very pretty actress playing Charlotte Corday using a soft set of braided cords that had a special theater makeup on it that, when exposed to skin, left red marks. Every time she whipped me, it left what looked like welts. The audience loved it.

She stepped too close one night, however, and the whips cords swung around to my front, with the extra centripetal force leaving actual marks! All in the name of art.

We thought we staged it awfully well, and the school administration didn’t even blink. My co-star, Marat, went on to become a Barnum & Bailey clown.

By: blueelm

blueelm — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:16:00 +0000

May watch this tonight…

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:12:00 +0000

My parents loved this one, and we sang the songs in the car.

As grateful as I am to my parents for playing Peter, Paul, & Mary I can’t help wishing my parents had been a little more like yours.

By: Stickarm

Stickarm — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:06:00 +0000

This film has a really amazing cast — it’s almost like an unofficial production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

By: jetfx

jetfx — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:06:00 +0000

Awesome, I’ll have to watch it as I’ve not seen it since my university days when the student drama club put it on.