Marat / Sade | Style
Play within a Play
Weiss uses the technique of a play within a play to tell his story. This layers the play and creates a certain distance for the audience while providing the playwright with narration to explain the work. Marat is both a character in the inner play and is pulled to the outer play in debates with Sade. Coulmier exists in the outer play and regularly challenges what Sade, the creator of the inner play, is doing.
This technique had been used fairly extensively prior to Marat/Sade—notably in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and...
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