Theatre Recording Society

You are invited to accept this brilliant new original cast album

with membership in the Theatre Recording Society

H Rearing, hypnotic, astonishing, enthralling, O overwhelming, jolting, shocking, fantastic, brilliant!” With these words, the critics hailed the Broadway opening of the most remarkable play of the twentieth century - The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.

Now, this unforgettable experience in “total theatre” lias been re-created on records by director Peter Brook anil his inspired cast. Here is all of the awesome, spine-tingling drama — the perverse and challenging philosophy - the wry political satire - the bawdy, Brechtian songs — enriched and illuminated in a performance staged expressly for listening. Using the microphone virtually as a spotlight, the director singles out each voice . . . allowing you to savor every beautifully enunciated speech, every sardonic song lyric, every innuendo of passion.

As you listen, the seething atmosphere of the bathhouse at Charenton rises like a spectre before you. You hear the scuffling and shuffling of the inmates . . . the gentle, mindless singing of Charlotte Corday as she comes to murder Marat . . . the smug voice of The Establishment reassuring you that “such things don’t happen anymore.”You follow in sheer fascination the primordial conflict between the amoral de Sade — and Marat, the man who struggles against evil.

Complete on three longplaying : records, with illustrated Folio, and separate 116-page text volume

As a member, you will thrill to performances by Paul Scofield, Julie Harris, Claire Bloom. Sir Laurence Olivier, Mildred Dunnock, Sir John Gielgud, Dame Judith Anderson, Montgomery Clift, and others—in dynamic new productions of Euripides. Shakespeare, Sheridan, Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Sartre, Ionesco, and other great masters of the drama. You take only the plays you want. Every two months, you receive the Society’s informative ‘’preview” Bulletin, describing the forthcoming play production. Each play is recorded on 12inch longplaying records, beautifully boxed, with a Companion Production Folio of fascinating pictures and essays. Your only obligation is to accept four albums of your choice over the next two years — from a wide variety of new play productions offered.

You pay special low prices. Although these lavish boxed sets cost non-members far more, you pay only $8.90 and $12.90 for two-record and three-record albums — including the elaborate Folio. Monaural and stereo versions are available to you at the same price.

the audition, send the low introductory price of only $1, plus shipping (the catalogue price is $18.85 — the text volume alone sells for $1.95). Otherwise, you may return the album in 10 days, cancel your membership, and owe nothing. This is definitely a limited-time offer, so mail the coupon promptly. Theatre Recording Society, 505 Eighth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10018.

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Please enter my trial membership and send me the original cast production of MARAT/SADE as my introductory album. You will bill me only $1, plus a few cents for shipping. This beautifully boxed set includes 3 longplaying records, illustrated Production Folio, and the full text of the play.

As a member, I will be notified in advance of all new Society releases. My only obligation is to take four albums of my choice over the next two years, at the special members’ price of only $8.90 for two-record albums and $12.90 for three-record albums (same low price for monaural and stereo).

It not thrilled with your introductory album, return it n 10 days to cancel membership, and owe nothing

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This extraordinary 3-record album (catalogue price: $18.85) is offered for only $1 to introduce you to the Theatre Recording Society. The Society brings you exciting full-length productions of the world’s great plays—from Aeschylus to Ionesco—in performances especially staged and recorded for home listening enjoyment.

Accept this $1 membership offer. Mail the trial enrollment form, and we will send you the complete Marat/Sade album for 10 days audition. The set includes: three 12-inch longplaying records; illustrated companion Folio; and a separate 116-page text volume, with notes by the author and director. If you are thrilled with

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Please send records in □ Monaural (for any 3336 rpm phonograph) □ Stereo (for stereophonic equipment only). AT-8-66

Mail coupon to receive this recording of the complete play by Peter Weiss, performed by the Royaf Shakespeare Company directed by Peter Brook. English ^

version by Geoflrey Skelton. Verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell. Music by RrcharO C. Peaslee, A presentation of the David Merrick Arts Foundation. ^ -*=