Charlotte Corday

About the show

In Paris on 13 July 1793, Charlotte Corday meets her disillusioned Girondin friend Camille and Marat’s bodyguard Gaston. She sees Marat but misses a chance to kill him. The next day, after Marat frees Camille, Charlotte again considers how to act against him. In act three she visits Marat in his bath with a list of revolutionary enemies. Their argument over power, loneliness, truth and death ends when she stabs him; Marat dies understanding her expression but not learning her name.