| Marat
Sade [Theatre] |
By Peter Weiss
Directed by Jonathon Hendry
Year 2 Acting students
Produced by Unitec
Unitec Theatre and surrounding rooms September 2005
Sound Design Marc Chesterman
Forty years ago, director Peter Brook explored the ideas of visionary poet-philosopher Antoine Artaud. As part of their performance research, the Year 2 actors conjured up the past as they utilised three rooms of what were historically part of a former psychiatric hospital.
The patients sang, played piano & percussion whilst the sounds of the asylum wafted in from side rooms. "Poor Marat in your bath-tub seat." The tap drips.