'Utter filth and depravity': 200 walkout in outrage at sickening Royal Shakespeare play featuring nudity, torture by Taser and rape

Theatregoers have been walking out of a ‘filthy and depraved’ Royal Shakespeare Company production in their droves, disgusted by its scenes of nudity, violence and rape.

On one night, 80 left Stratford-upon-Avon’s Royal Shakespeare  Theatre during the play, Marat/Sade, which features simulated sex acts and torture by Taser.

It is set in a lunatic asylum in post-revolutionary France, where the infamous Marquis de Sade is directing a play about the last days of political thinker Jean Paul Marat using inmates as actors.  Full Read