Danton's Death
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
Ian Richardson
RobespierreNorman Rodway
DantonJohn Woodnutt
Fouquier-TinvilleZoë Wanamaker
LucilleRoger Sloman
BarèreKate Fahy
JulieAnthony Higgins
CamilleShane Briant
Hérault-SéchellesDon Henderson
MercierMichael Pennington
Saint-JustJames Aubrey
LacroixJonathan Adams
Collot d'HerboisMichael Bilton
1st GentlemanMichael Cronin
Billaud-Varennes