Danton's Death

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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'.

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Creators

Alan Clarke

director

Georg Büchner

writer

Alan Clarke

writer

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Stuart Griffiths

writer

Cast

Ian Richardson actor Norman Rodway actor John Woodnutt actor Zoë Wanamaker actor Roger Sloman actor Kate Fahy actor Anthony Higgins actor

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Shane Briant actor Don Henderson actor Michael Pennington actor James Aubrey actor Jonathan Adams actor

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Christopher Banks actor Michael Bilton actor

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Nell Brennan actor Michael Cronin actor

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Emma Garden actor

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Felicity Gibson actor