The Marat/Sade project is a new and risky adaptation of the original play by Peter Weiss “The Persecution and Murder of Jean-Paul Marat performed by the theater 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 release the repressed energies of the human being, erase the limits between the scene and the audience and stimulate with new sensations.

A Marat/Sade that plays with public space as a catalyst, presenting the work as a suffocating experience. The spectator finds his everyday space transformed by the action and by the mass. If one has been to a demonstration with altercations he 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 struggle 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 the staging of terror, decontextualized and anachronistic. Picking up Marat’s murder more than as an outcome, as a link in a suggested spiral. Replacing the dialectical debate with experiential experience.

This Marat/Sade proposes a multi-reading approach to narration. Each small group of spectators enjoys a limited part of the work that is completed with a part common to all spectators. Playing with the polarization of space, the public positions itself, changes place. Find your place while the conflict does not cease. To death. The characters are nuclei that bring together the masses, currents, the inner conflicts within each of us raised and confronted. The work itself as the internal debate of the individual human being. Marat/Sade is a bloody representation of human suffering that raises the question of whether the true revolution occurs by changing society or changing oneself.