Photo: performance 'Marat and Marquis De Sade' at Avignon Theatre Festival

By Yuriy P. Lyubimov after Peter Weiss "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of Monsieur de Sade"


Director - Yury Lyubimov. Scenography by Vladimir Boyer. Music by Sergey Letov, Mikhail Zhukov, Vladimir Martynov, Tatiana Zhannova. Costumes - Elena Predvoditeleva. Choreographer of the step dance - Vladimir Belaykin. Plastic Movement - Vladimir Sazhin


CAST

Coulmier, Polpoch, Father of Marat - Felix Antipov, Roman Staburov

Marquis de Sade - Dmitry Vysotsky, Valery Zolotukhin (1998-2012)

Jean-Paul Marat - Timur Badalbeili

Charlotte Corday - Alexandra Bassova, Irina Lindt

Herald, Kokol - Vlad Malenko, Filipp Kotov

Cucurucu, The hospital attendant - Alexandr Fursenko

Le Rossignol, Simonne Evrard - Larisa Maslova

Duperret, Inmate - Nikita Luchikhin

Jacques Roux, School Teacher of Marat - Konstantin Lyubimov

Wife of Coulmier, Mother of Marat - Tatiana Sidorenko

The hospital attendant - Ivan Ryzhikov

The Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton - Anastasia Kolpikova, Yelizaveta Vysotskaya, Margarita Radzig

Asylum Band:

Singers - soloists of Dmitry Pokrovsky Ensemble: Marina Cherkashina, Svetlana Sorokina-Subbotina

The schedule of performances look at https://www.letov.ru/CONCERTS.html

The performance was put on stage in 1998 - at Taganka Theatre, Minor Stage

Since 1998 Marat and Marquis de Sade was presented at Theatre festivals at Petersburg (Russia), Rome, Avignone, Tampere (Finland), Budapest, New Haven (USA), Hong Kong, Seoul, Shizuoka (Japan), Rijeka (Croatia), Kiev (Ukraine), Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk

Jazz variations on the music for Marat and Marquis de Sade - MP3:

(recorded in Ekaterinburg: Sergey Letov - saxophones, chalumeau, Vladimir Talabuev - alto saxophone, Vitaliy Vladimirov -trombone, piano, Alexandr Alexandrov - bassoon, Sergey Proskurin - double bass, Igor Zakharov - drums)

- first 45 seconds, playing by Russian Saxophone Mafia

Photos by Sergey Tyryshkin (2011)