Danton's Death

The story

Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.

Cast

I Ian RichardsonRobespierre N Norman RodwayDanton J John WoodnuttFouquier-Tinville Z Zoë WanamakerLucille R Roger SlomanBarère K Kate FahyJulie A Anthony HigginsCamille S Shane BriantHérault-Séchelles D Don HendersonMercier M Michael PenningtonSaint-Just J James AubreyLacroix J Jonathan AdamsCollot d'Herbois

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C Christopher Banks2nd Gentleman M Michael Bilton1st Gentleman N Nell BrennanAdelaide M Michael CroninBillaud-Varennes E Emma GardenMarion F Felicity GibsonMarchioness