Marat/Sade in the Toronto Reference Library’s Arts Department

My husband and I fell in love over a production of Marat/Sade.

The work, which originally premiered in Berlin in 1964, is the play with the longest name in history: The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat : as performed by the inmates of the Asylum of Charen'ton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade. The title is usually shortened to Marat/Sade for obvious reasons.

The Toronto Reference Library’s Arts Department has the play in various formats:

The original playscript by Peter Weiss.
The vocal score by Richard Peaslee.
A CD recording of two productions: Marat/Sade and US.
A DVD of Peter Brook's motion picture version of the production.
A vinyl recording of the Royal Shakespeare company’s production.

The Arts Department also also has a number of books discussing the significance of the play and its various incarnations. Here are a couple of them:

The play centres around the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, a well-known figure in the French Revolution. In 1793 French painter Jacques-Louis David was called upon to memorialize martyrs of the French Revolution, including Marat. The famous painting, known as The Death of Marat, is pictured below.