Danton's Death

Directed by James Leaf
Loeb Mainstage (64 Brattle Street)

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Set in 1794, at the height of France's political terror, Danton's Death dramatizes the last twelve days in the life of the revolutionary leader Georges Danton. Danton's final resistance to the totalitarian dictatorship of Maximilien Robespierre, his famous trial, and his eventual execution at the guillotine on April 5th are set against the backdrop of a city in the throes of a carnival colored by violence, of a popular carnality usurped by militant virtue, and of a newfound liberation betrayed by terror.

As a young German radical Georg Buchner composed this epic portrait of the Revolution in a flurry after having been forced underground for his own subversive activities, stating that the secret police had acted as "his muses."

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