A few clips from the 1967 production of Peter Weiss' "The Prosecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton, under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade", as performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, under the direction of Peter Brooks.In Clip 1, the proletariat of France, realizing that the Revolution will only lead to a change of Bosses, re-affirms its trust to Jean-Paul to protect the interests of the People.HOMAGE TO MARAT Four years after the revolution and the old king's executionfour years after, remember how those courtiers took their final bowString up every aristocrat!Out with the priests and let them live on their fat!Four years after we started fighting Marat keeps on with his writing Four years after the Bastille fellhe still recalls the old battle yellDown with all of the Ruling Class!Throw all the Generals out on their arse!Good old Marat by your side we'll stand or fallYou're the only one that we can trust at allFour years he fought and he fought unafraidsniffing down traitors, by traitors betrayed.Marat in the courtroom, Marat underground,sometimes the otter and sometimes the houndFighting all the gentry and fighting every priest,businessman, the bourgeois, the military beast.Marat always ready to stifle every scheme of the sons of the arse-licking, dying RegimeWe've got new generals, our leaders are newThey sit and they argue and all that they dois sell their own colleagues and ride on their backsand jail them and break them or give them all the axeScreaming in language that no one understandsof the rights that we grabbed with our own bleeding handswhen we wiped out the bosses and stormed through the wallof the prison they told us would outlast us allMarat we're poorAnd the poor stay poorMarat don't make us wait anymoreWe want our rights and we don't care howWe want our revolution NOW

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