ON THE FRINGE: Win tickets to Marat/Sade

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ON THE FRINGE: Win tickets to Marat/Sade

POSTED: Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:47 PM

Officially winning the prize for Most Ridiculously Long Title for a Fringe Show Ever, 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 is much better/less insanely known as Marat/Sade.

Here's what Mark Cofta had to say about the show, produced by EgoPo Classic Theater, in our Fringe preview bonanza:

EgoPo launches its season exploring Antonin "Theater of Cruelty" Artaud's avante-garde theories with Peter Weiss' controversial 1964 hit Marat/Sade, which unfolds in a grim 1808 French asylum, where infamous Sade (David Blatt), confined for blasphemy and sexual deviancy, rallies inmates to overcome their paranoia, erotomania and other infirmities to create a play about Jean-Paul Marat's murder and the bloody French Revolution. In West Philly's Sanctuary at the Rotunda, the action will envelope the audience.

To win a pair of tickets (based on EgoPo's availability and yours), answer the following trivia question:

Who, in 1793, painted a depiction of Jean-Paul Marat's death — a work of art that would become one of the most famous portrayals of the French Revolution?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win!

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