The Marat/Sade project is a new and daring adaptation of Peter Weiss’ original play “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat performed by the theatrical group of the Charenton mental health home under the direction of the Marquis de Sade”, which incorporates dramatic elements from Artaud and Brecht and approaches the “theater of cruelty”. It tries to liberate the repressed energies of the human being, to erase the limits between the stage and the audience and to stimulate with new sensations.

A Marat/Sade that plays with public space as a catalyst, presenting the work as an asphyxiating experience. The spectator finds his daily space transformed by the action and by the mass. If you have been to a demonstration with riots you can see certain similarities. You know the space but you don’t know where you can move safely, you know that something is happening, you also know what it responds to, but you don’t know what exactly is happening. You are torn between militancy, curiosity and fear. A free adaptation that moves away from the humor of the original work, lengthening the previous proposition with effusion, recreating itself in the staging of terror, decontextualized and anachronistic. Taking up the assassination of Marat more than as a denouement, as a link in a suggested spiral. Substituting the dialectical debate for the experiential experience.

This Marat/Sade proposes a multi-reading approach to the narrative. Each small group of spectators enjoys a limited part of the play that is completed with a part common to all spectators. Playing with the polarization of space, the audience positions itself, changes its place. It looks for its place while the conflict does not cease. Until death. The characters are nuclei that agglutinate the masses, currents, the inner conflicts within each of us put up and confronted. The play itself as the inner debate of the individual human being. Marat/Sade is a bloody representation of the suffering of the human being that raises the question of whether the real revolution takes place by changing society or by changing oneself.