TWEED TheaterWorks to Present MARAT/SADE to Benefit The Actors Fund

Some of the most important playwrights and performers in avant-garde theater present staged readings of new works in progress at the intimate, ultimate downtown theatrical event: Writers Block 2016 presented by Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project to showcase the vision of contemporary writers, performers and artists, many of whom got their start in the nightclubs, seminal performance spaces, and theaters in the EV/LES.

"Theater is alive and well and thriving in the East Village," says Jane Friedman, founder of Howl! Happening. "The performance scene is flourishing in spite of the glass and metal monstrosities growing up around it."

For information and an updated schedule of events, go to howlarts.org. Tickets available at the door and from Brown Paper Tickets (see prices and links below).

The staged readings series is a benefit for the Actors Fund's Howl! HELP, providing emergency financial assistance and social service support to artists who have made or continue to make their careers in New York's East Village and Lower East Side arts communities. Howl! HELP is administered by the Actors Fund and 100% ticket sales benefit the Actors Fund.

TWEED TheaterWorks
Monday, September 19, 2016 / 7 PM / Presented in Association with Dixon Place***
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat
as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton
Under The Direction of the Marquis de Sade

TWEED TheaterWorks Artistic Director Kevin Malony directs an angry, pissed-off production of Marat/Sade, for angry, pissed-off times. Marat/Sade unleashes a host of luminaries from the New York City performance scene to shred the delicate sensibilities of its audience: Edgar Oliver, David Cale, Bree Benton, Julie Atlas Muz, James 'Tigger!' Ferguson, Daniel Booth (aka Sweetie), Colleen O'Neill, Brian Butterick, Flloyd, Agosto Machado, Joan Marie Moossy, Brenda Bergman, Natasha Thweatt, and more!

In this play within a play set in the historical Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs inmates of the institution in a historical re-enactment of the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat. Marat/Sade was originally published in German in 1962 and was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1964 under the direction of Peter Brook. This iconic production later moved to Broadway where it won a Tony for best play in 1965, and was filmed in 1967.

Songs will be performed by Stephen Pell, John Kelly, Carol Lipnik, Basil Roderick, Michael Cavadias, David Ilku, Joseph Keckler, and Bree Benton (Poor Baby Bree), and the entire ensemble, under the musical direction of John Kruth. Stanley Love will choreograph.

Tickets: General Admission $30; VIP Ticket $50 includes a champagne reception with the artists. Go to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2583441. Performances are presented by TWEED TheaterWorks at Dixon Place, 161A Christie Street, New York. 100% of the proceeds from ticket sales go to the Actors Fund. Click here for more info: ABOUT HOWL! ARTS AND HOWL! HAPPENING.