Marat/Sade, the whip scene - Peter Brook, the Royal Shakespeare Company 1967 (play: Peter Weiss)

Marat/Sade, full title: “The persecution and assassination of Jean Paul Marat as performed by the inmates at the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade”, is a play in a play, written in German by Peter Weiss in1963. Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company including Patrick Magee (Marquis de Sade), Ian Richardson (Jean-Paul Marat), Glenda Jackson (Charlotte Corday), Clifford Rose (Monsieur Coulmier), and Freddie Jones (Cucurucu), directed by Peter Brook
One of the most powerful scenes of the play depicts Marquis de Sade being whipped on his own instructions (act 1, scene 20).
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