Show Description and Press Release:
Soup Can Theatre proudly presents Peter Weiss’ Tony Award winning drama-musical, Marat/Sade! (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) This dark and unflinching show - packed full of madness, melody and Machiavellianism - is sure to be a highlight of Toronto’s summer theatre season!
~ “A vivid and explosive work ... It will stir your imagination and provoke your mind ... It will not leave you untouched” - The New York Times ~
Marat/Sade paints a critical picture of the French Revolution and its unbridled violence through the eyes of eccentric nobleman and sexual deviant, the Marquis de Sade. The work is set in the Charenton Asylum where, as an inmate, De Sade was permitted to write and mount dramatic works using his fellow patients as actors, and to perform the completed pieces before audiences of French Aristocrats. When De Sade presents his latest and most controversial work to date - a dramatization of the assassination of writer and fervent revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat at the hand of young and comely idealist Charlotte Corday - his incendiary script inspires and energizes the motley cast of inmates. Despite the asylum director’s attempts to quell the situation, the polite proceedings devolve into an anarchic melee of wit-laced debate, hedonism, and animalism that threatens to bring the whole institution crumbling down.
Soup Can Theatre’s production has stripped ‘Marat/Sade’ of its early 19th century mise-en-scene and placed it in the world of McGill University’s Psychiatry Department, circa 1957.
July 19th-23rd @ 8pm, July 24th @ 2pm. Alumnae Theatre Mainspace.
All tickets and performances $15, available by clicking the header!
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