In that play by this author of the thousand-page novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, fifteen years of history are summed up in song right as Charlotte Corday prepares to assassinate the protagonist of the play within the play.
This author wrote a play about a customs inspector whose heart falls into his pants and who meets Jack Pudding after being jailed arbitrarily, entitled How Mr. Mockinpott Was Cured of His Sufferings. He used Auschwitz trial transcripts as the basis for his oratorio The Investigation and wrote a play about the Angolan uprising called Song of the Lusitanian Bogey. The stage directions for his major play state that most of the characters are to hop about, turn in circles, (*) mutter, and scream at irregular intervals, as one of the major characters delivers a monologue while being whipped and the use of a chopped-off  head as a soccer ball offends Coulmier. In that play by this author of the thousand-page novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, fifteen years of history are summed up in song right as Charlotte Corday prepares to assassinate the protagonist of the play within the play. For 10 points, name this author of 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.
This author wrote a play about a customs inspector whose heart falls into his pants and who meets Jack Pudding after being jailed arbitrarily, entitled How Mr. Mockinpott Was Cured of His Sufferings.
{Peter Weiss}