

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on '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', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

Patrick Magee
Marquis de Sade

Ian Richardson
Jean-Paul Marat

Michael Williams
Herald

Clifford Rose
Monsieur Coulmier

Glenda Jackson
Charlotte Corday

Freddie Jones
Cucurucu
Hugh Sullivan
Kokol

John Hussey
Newly Rich Lady

William Morgan Sheppard
A Mad Animal

Jonathan Burn
Polpoch
Jeanette Landis
Rossignol

Robert Langdon Lloyd
Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)

John Steiner
Monsieur Dupere
James Mellor
Schoolmaster

Henry Woolf
Father
John Harwood
Voltaire

Leon Lissek
Lavoisier
Susan Williamson
Simone Evrard
Carol Raymont
Patient
Mary Allen
Patient
Peter Brook
Adrian Mitchell
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