Extract taken from Scenes 5,7,9 & 8 of the Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss translated by Skelton & Cohen
ROBOT A PLAYS THE ROLE OF A PARANOIC WHO IS PLAYING THE ROLE OF JEAN PAUL MARAT WHO WAS A RADICAL POLITICIAN DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
[Robot A shuffles about]
CHORUS:
Marat we're poor and the poor stay poor Marat don't make us wait any more We want our rights and we don't care how We want our revolution NOW
ROBOT B PLAYS THE ROLE OF A GIRL WITH NARCOLEPSY PLAYING THE ROLE OF CHARLOTTE CORDAY WHO KILLED MARAT IN HIS BATH
CHORUS:
Corday Corday (repeats)
[Robot B stays still]
ROBOT C PLAYS THE ROLE OF ANOTHER INMATE OF CHARENTON PLAYING THE ROLE OF SIMONNE EVRARD, MARAT'S COMPANION AND NURSE
[ROBOT A is still, ROBOT C circles A]
[ROBOT A is still, ROBOT C circles A, ROBOT B approaches waggling, stops & speaks]
ROBOT B/CORDAY: [sleepily and hesitantly]
Poor Marat in your bathtub your body soaked saturated with poison
[waking up]
Poison spurting from your hiding place poisoning the people arousing them to looting and murder I want to thrust right between his ribs the dagger which I carry between my breasts
[ROBOT C gets between B & A]
ROBOT C/SIMONNE
We don't want any visitors We want a bit of peace
[ROBOT B leaves]
MARAT: [turns around in frenzy]
Simonne Simonne More cold water Change my bandage O this itching is unbearable
[ROBOT C turns to A.]
SIMONNE:
Jean-Paul don't scratch yourself you'll tear your skin to shreds Jean-Paul please be more careful look how red the water's getting
MARAT:
And what's a bath full of blood compared to the bloodbaths still to come Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look everywhere Simonne Simonne my head's on fire I can't breathe * * * Simonne The screaming is inside me Simonne I am the Revolution