Falcon's Eye Theatre Announces MARAT/SADE as its Fall Production

Known for its technical wizardry, The Falcon's Eye is creating a truly immersive multimedia experience. Audiences to this unique event will move within an intimate, limited seating venue involving all of their senses. Live and recorded mixed media, bombastic theatrical interpretations, over ten original musical compositions, and some of the most spectacular physical design elements ever employed in the area will plunge audiences into an experience unique to region. This play has been called a major modern theatrical innovation. This "total theatre" event engages the eye, the ear, and the mind with every imaginable theatrical device fused in one breathtaking experience.

The play begins when The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton Mental Hospital and decides to put on a play. He writes and directs the other mental patients in a play based on the life of Jean-Paul Marat, a French politician, journalist and leader of a radical faction during the French Revolution. What could go wrong During this "play-within-a-play," emotions rise and the patients, already on the brink of sanity, become increasingly agitated to the point of riot. Incorporating dramatic elements characteristic of both Antonin Artaud and Bertolt Brecht, it is a depiction of class struggle and human suffering that asks whether true revolution comes from changing society or changing oneself.

The playwright, Peter Weiss, was born in Germany near Berlin. He resisted the idea of wealth and society early on in his adolescence. Training at a young age to be a visual artist, his life drastically changed when Hitler came into power, as Weiss was half Jewish and a Czech citizen. After his family fled to London, Weiss took up photography and continued his other artistic pursuits, including writing. In 1964, his play Marat/Sade was produced and put Weiss on the international stage after he and the play received critical acclaim. Weiss continued to write plays until his death in 1982. Weiss wrote, "I myself think that art should be so strong that it changes life; otherwise it is a failure."

The production of Marat/Sade will take place in the City Studio Theatre (Stage Two) at the Harris Center

PERFORMANCE DATES:

November 3 @ 7:30pm

November 4 @ 2:00pm

November 4 @ 7:30pm

November 5 @ 2:00pm

November 9 @ 7:30pm

November 10 @ 7:30pm

November 11 @ 2:00pm

November 11 @ 7:30pm

November 12 @ 2:00pm

November 16 @ 7:30pm SPECIAL STUDENT PERFORMANCE @ $5 TICKET (VALID ID)

November 17 @ 7:30pm

November 18 @ 2:00pm

November 18 @ 7:30pm

November 19 @ 2:00pm

Performances take place in Stage Two (City Studio Theatre) at The Harris Center for the Arts on the campus of Folsom Lake College. To purchase tickets, visit the Harris Center website at www.harriscenter.net. Enter the title "Marat" in the Google search box. Click on the top search result. Tickets may also be purchased by phone at 916-608-6888. Some service charges can be avoided by purchasing your tickets in person. Visit the Harris Center Ticket Office at 10 College Parkway in Folsom. The office is open between 12pm and 6pm, Monday through Saturday and is always open two hours before any performance.

MARAT/SADE

Presented by The Falcon's Eye Theatre at Folsom Lake College

QUICK FACTS

Director: David Harris

Scenic and Video Designer: Ian Wallace

Costume Designer: Rebecca Redmond

Lighting Designer: Mika McKenzie-Bahr

Musical Director and Original Songs Composed by: JD Rudometkin

Movement Director: Gavin Michael Sellers

FEATURED CAST

Marquis de Sade - Steven Minow

Jean-Paul Marat - Brennan Villados

Simone Evrard - Al Matas

Charlotte Corday - Cynthia Hawes

Duperret - Wesley Murphy

Jacques Roux - Sonny Alforque