'Utter Filth and Depravity!; Outcry at Sex and Torture Play in the Bard's Backyard Exclusive

Sunday Mercury › October 23, 2011

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IT is the play so sickening that more than 200 people have walked out, unable to stomach the Royal Shakespeare Company's diet of sex, nudity, rape and torture.

Since controversial play Marat/ Sade opened ten days ago at Stratford-upon-Avon's renowned Royal Shakespeare Theatre, around 30 people a night have been leaving early.

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'Utter Filth and Depravity!; Outcry at Sex and Torture Play in the Bard's Backyard Exclusive

Shocking scenes are so explicit that on one night alone up to 80 people quit the newly refurbished theatre more used to William Shakespeare's classics, in disgust...

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