Set during the French Reign of Terror, "Danton's Death" follows the demise of Jacobin leader Georges Danton, who becomes disenchanted with the Revolutionary government and is subsequently sent to the ...
A review of Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner in a new version by Howard Brenton at the National Theatre in London, directed by Michael Grandage. Danton’s Death, the famed play by German writer Georg ...
A passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes. By Laura Cappelle Laura Cappelle is a Paris-based ...
To insult a girl in the style of the French revolutionaries, calling her “a stained bordello bed sheet”—as stage prompter Simon does to one of his conquests—might do the trick. Memorable lines like ...
The letter, a witness to the birth of the French Republic, was sold to a private collector at auction to the disappointment of a group of historians, writers and politicians including Annie Duprat, ...
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A French battleship sunk in 1917 by a German submarine has been discovered in remarkable condition on ...
Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror. By David Lawday. Jonathan Cape; 294 pages; £20. To be published in America by Grove Atlantic at the end of 2010. Buy from Amazon ...
The latter admittedly crashes its way, somewhat psychotically, into Büchner's last and unfinished Woyzeck, one of the strangest yet most influential dramas of the 19th-century European repertoire; and ...
An acute analysis of the dangers of radicalism and a powerful meditation on death that often brings Shakespeare’s Hamlet to mind. Rating: * * * * Toby Stephens as Danton in Danton's Death at the ...
It's 1794 and the French Revolution, having done away with Marie Antoinette and the rest of her sort, has begun a reign of terror. Danton's Death at the National isn ...
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