London European Theatre's Marat/Sade will be running for two more weeks at The Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton. Please find information about the performance below:
LONDON EUROPEAN THEATRE presents:
Marat/Sade
A dark carnival of ensemble physical theatre, mime, clowning, music and song launches the work of new company London European Theatre with their innovative and powerful production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade.
THE COURTYARD THEATRE, 28th SEPT - 24th OCTOBER, 2010
(No Monday performances)
http://www.thecourtyard.org.uk/whatson/127/maratsade
Marat/Sade has a vast array of theatrical influences and is therefore an ideal theatre trip as part of an undergraduate Drama and Theatre Arts programme.
One of the London critics attacked the play on the ground that it was a fashionable mixture of all the best theatrical ingredients around: Brechtian, diadactic, absurdist, Theatre of Cruelty. He said this to disparage but I repeat this as praise. Peter Brook
The play is a very effective tool in the approach of the history and development of European Theatre during the twentieth century. Diverse influences include: Brecht, Artaud, Strindberg, Anouilh's historical dramas, Piscator's documentary theatre, Japanese Kabuki, Commedia dell'Arte, Cabaret-Revue and Opera.
Question and Answer sessions with director, Eric Douchin, and the actors are available on request (group bookings only).
Tickets prices: £14 / £12 (Concessions)
Special Offer for groups of 10 or more: £10 per ticket
Marat/Sade Show Description:
Twenty years after the French Revolution, the Marquis de Sade - shut away in a lunatic asylum - directs his fellow inmates in a play based on the murder of leading French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. As the events leading to the murder of Marat unfold, the lines between performance and reality blur. The play becomes a biting and timely comment on the conflicts between socio-historical duties and unbridled individualism, in a society under constant and overbearing surveillance.
This is a dynamic and arresting piece of total theatre that incorporates inventive movement, atmospheric vocal work and thought-provoking intellectual debate. Not for the faint-hearted, an intense theatrical experience that explores the nature of revolution and the liberating power of theatre.
London European Theatre is a new collaboration founded by director, actor and teacher, Eric Douchin. The company is committed to the promotion of modern European theatre writing and the production of high quality, interdisciplinary theatre work that unites theatrical invention with intellectual rigour and entertainment.
THE COURTYARD THEATRE
Bowling Green Walk
40 Pitfield Street
London
N1 6EU
Ticket Enquiries: 020 7729 2202 (after 5.30pm) or tickets@thecourtyard.org.uk
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