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Overview: 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.

Cast:

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

Brenda Kempner
Madame Coulmier

Mark Jones
Mother

Maroussia Frank
Patient

Tamara Fuerst
Patient

Sheila Grant
Patient

Lynn Pinkney
Patient

Ian Hogg
Military Representative

Ruth Baker
Mademoiselle Coulmier

Michael Farnsworth
Patient

Guy Gordon
Patient

Michael Percival
Patient

Heather Canning
Nun

Jennifer Tudor
Nun

Tim Hardy
Guard (as Timothy Hardy)

Stanford Trowell
Guard