| In 1964, Jackson received international acclaim playing Charlotte Corday in Peter Weiss' avant-garde psychological drama The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, a play-within-a-play better known by its shortened title Marat/Sade. Directed by Peter Brook, the play was brought to New York in December 1965, where it won the Drama Critics' Circle Award and four Tony awards. Although the role in Marat/Sade was pivotal for Jackson (she won a Tony nomination and a Variety poll award as the most promising new actress of 1965–66), she found the play distasteful. "I loathe and detest everything about this production," she told Rex Reed in a New York Times interview, "We all loathe it.… It's a play that breeds sickness, with no release for the tension." |
