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
| The Heralds | Adél Jordán Bence Tasnádi |
| Marquis de Sade | Ernő Fekete |
| Jean Paul Marat | Lehel Kovács |
| Simonne Evrard | Péter Takátsy |
| Charlotte Corday | Hanna Pálos |
| Duperret | István Dankó |
| Jacques Roux | Béla Mészáros |
| Mail nurse | László Szacsvay |
| Coulmier | Zoltán Rajkai |
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| Set and costume design | Eszter Kálmán |
| Choreography | Máté Hegymegi |
| Composers | Árpád Kákonyi Tamás Matkó |
| Dramaturg | Enikő Perczel |
| Dramaturg consultant | Annamária Radnai |
| Assistant | Vera Fejes |
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| Directed by | András Dömötör |
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas
passed from generation to generation
that even the best of us don't know the way out
We invented the Revolution”
The full title of the play, that is written by the German Peter Weiss and was performed firstly in 1964, is 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, abbreviated as Marat/Sade.
The play, which carries a number of Brechtian characteristics, is constructed to give a “play-within-a-play” experience and is a unique portrayal of the constant fight between social classes and human suffering. In his work, Weiss puts the question to the audience: where does the essence of the revolution lay? In altering society or altering ourselves?
Premiere: 16 October, 2014