How small American drama looks in comparison to important, true, powerful plays like this. I put this high on my list of favorite works of dramatic art, up there with Mahagonny and The Physicists.
Breath-taking. But sad because we no more learn human lessons from art than we learn them from history. We repeat the same greedy errors, endlessly, until finally our species will end or take the frightful act of repetition to Mars or the moon or ... ? But we seem incapable of advancing as a species to humane collective behavior.
A profound meditation on the nature of revolution, on power and its abuses, means and ends, Marat/Sade is also great theater. Weiss has written a marvelous drama here, both entertaining and thoughtful. It is, undoubtedly, one of the great works of the 1960s.
