
"By Peter Weiss"
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.
Marquis de Sade

Jean-Paul Marat

Herald

Monsieur Coulmier

Charlotte Corday

Cucurucu

Kokol
Newly Rich Lady

A Mad Animal

Polpoch

Rossignol
Jacques Roux (as Robert Lloyd)

Monsieur Dupere

Schoolmaster
Father

Voltaire
Lavoisier

Simone Evrard
Patient
Patient
Madame Coulmier
Mother

Patient

Patient
Patient
Patient
Military Representative

Mademoiselle Coulmier
Patient

Patient
Patient

Nun

Nun
Guard (as Timothy Hardy)
Guard