Weiss, Peter
Weiss, Peter ( 1916 – 82 ),German playwright, born in Berlin, and best known in England for his Marat/Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade) which was first performed in London in 1964 in an adaptation by Geoffrey Skelton and Adrian Mitchell , directed by Peter Brook . This was a landmark in the theatre of the 1960s, uniting elements of the Theatre of the Absurd , the Theatre of Cruelty , and the revolutionary Marxism of the period, and illustrating interest in attitudes to mental illness and imprisonment expressed in the writings of Laing and Foucault .
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