Monday 28 June 2010

Now Peter Brooks is back to New York with his new production of Dostoyvsky's "The Grand Inquisitor". Did you, in 1964, see in New York, Brooks's production of Peter Weiss's "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Clinic of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade?" I have auditioned it while In Mosul, Iraq in 1973 on Caedmon LP Records, and the speeches of the the Marquis spoken by Patrick Magee are spellbinding. No wonder, Beckett wrote parts with Magee's mellifluous melodious voice in mind. Do you have among the Mabous Mines troupe a member who speaks so sweetly as does Magee in his "I hate nature" speech in Weiss's above play?

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