RSC Outrage

[tarzanontarmazepam]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15428711

Audiences have been walking out of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Marat/Sade, which features scenes of nudity and torture.

Theatre goers were apparently warned in advance, a spokesperson said ..'the show is doing nothing more than what should have been expected..'

Marat/Sade is set in a lunatic asylum, where the Marquis de Sade is directing a play about the murder of political thinker Jean Paul Marat.

No sex please, we're British. Laughing at the disabled is fine.

At one show 80 theatre goers walked out at the interval. A new RSC record. It might of course just simply be a rotten play.

[bonbonlarue]

I saw that yesterday and looked up what the play was based on...120 days of Sodom doesn't appeal to me as a couple of hours entertainment but I would have thought that anyone who frequents the RSC would at least know what they're going to watch.

[everso]

I wonder why, though, anybody writes a play like that in the first place. Seems to me it would have quite a limited appeal.

I'm thinking of seeing it just so that I can walk out.

[bonbonlarue]

We must get a block booking so the whole of SC can be outraged! {and then go to the pub}

[Weyland]

Oct 25, 2011 7:31:32 GMT bonbonlarue said:

We must get a block booking so the whole of SC can be outraged! {and then go to the pub}

Yes!

But first Patrick needs to lobby a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to get a By Appointment warrant for the Stub. Then we can all wear blazers with a tasteful badge sporting the inscription RSC.

[jean]

What a lovely idea!

(When I saw a student production of that here, there was disappointingly little explicit sex.

But isn't it amazing that a play written in 1963 still has the power to shock?)

[everso]

Was it written in 1963? Wow! Surely it was never shown then.

I saw "Twelfth Night" at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford (before its make-over). I quite enjoyed it - such lovely use of the English language - even though I couldn't understand a bloody word.

[Weyland]

Oct 25, 2011 13:51:15 GMT everso said:

Was it written in 1963? Wow! Surely it was never shown then.

I saw "Twelfth Night" at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford (before its make-over). I quite enjoyed it - such lovely use of the English language - even though I couldn't understand a bloody word.

I saw A Winter's Tale there, some time in the 60s. Had to stand at the back. Judi Dench. It was crap. Even Homer knods.