Judy Collins - Marat/Sade
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Marat/Sade - Wikipedia
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Musical score
Marat/Sade is a play with music. The use of music follows the approach of Brecht, whereby the songs comment on themes and issues of the play. Unlike a traditional musical format, the songs do not further the plot or expositional development of character in the play. By contrast they often add an alienation effect, interrupting the action of the play and offering historical, social and political commentary. Richard Peaslee composed music for the original English-language production of Marat/Sade directed by Peter Brook. Although there is no official score to the play in any language, the success of the Brook-directed Royal Shakespeare Company production and film made the Peaslee score popular for English-language productions. Sections of the Peaslee score have been included in trade copies of the Geoffrey Skelton/Adrian Mitchell English version (based on the text used for the Royal Shakespeare Company productions). The full score is available from ECS Publishing/Galaxy Music Corporation. The original Royal Shakespeare Company production was so popular that some of the songs from the show were recorded as a medley by Judy Collins on her album In My Life.
Marat/Sade production at the University of California, San Diego, 2005, directed by Stefan Novinski
Marat/Sade production at the State University of New York at Fredonia, 2008, directed by James Ivey
Marat/Sade production at the Theatre of NOTE, 2000, directed by Brad Mays
Marat/Sade is set at later mental home “Hôpital Esquirol” in present-day Saint-Maurice
Recordings of the songs were made by the cast of the original Royal Shakespeare Company production and film. The first recording of the show was a three-LP set released in 1964 by Caedmon Records. This was a complete audio recording of the original Broadway production. The second release was a single soundtrack album LP of the film score, released by Caedmon/United Artists Records.
The third release was a CD compilation of two 1966 Brook/Peaslee Royal Shakespeare Company productions: Marat/Sade and US, released by Premier Recordings. The songs included on this 1992 CD were:
Homage to Marat
The Corday Waltz
Song and Mime of Corday’s Arrival in Paris
The People’s Reaction
Those Fat Monkeys
Poor Old Marat
One Day It Will Come to Pass
Poor Marat in Your Bathtub Seat
Poor Old Marat (Reprise)
Copulation Round
Fifteen Glorious Years (interpolating the “Marseillaise”)
Finale
This track listing omits Royal Anthem (which appears on all other recordings) and does not specifically mention The Tumbrel Song either individually or as a part of Song and Mime of Corday’s Arrival in Paris. The cast of this recording includes Patrick Magee, Glenda Jackson and Freddie Jones. (The accompanying production, US, is about an American soldier “zappin’ the [Viet] Cong” in the Vietnam War.)
Marat/Sade (1967) + subtitles
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