![]() Remove his hands, his feet, his tongue, his manhood - all of which will happen in the course of the evening - and still he will find a way to create, because he must. Meanwhile, de Sade (Rocco Sisto) sits in his cell writing, the quills of the play’s title providing him with access to the world.Įventually they are taken away, and the Marquis is forced to devise ever more cunning means to get his stories down. The doctor has his own agenda, extorting money from Renee to finance a mansion in a vain attempt to appease his unfaithful wife. ![]() ![]() Apparently, he has managed to smuggle out a novel “so pornographic it drove men to murder and women to miscarry,” and she cannot bear the ostracism and public humilitation. The Marquis’ wife, Renee (Lola Pashalinski), has come to implore the new doctor in charge (Daniel Oreskes) to silence her prolific husband. The play is set in 1807 at the asylum at Charenton (stunningly realized by designer Neil Patel as a vast, decrepit ruin draped in red velvet and bathed in a wonderfully creepy light by Blake Burba). ![]()
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