Dantons Death Reviews

Robespierre should have been equal weight to Danton given his greater historical significance. One needed I think a prior knowledge of Revolution to get much out of it otherwise a lot of actors declaiming rather than relating to each other. Convetion scenes totally unconvincing just seemed to be a a small crowd of easily persuaded passers by. Still a play intriguing for those interested in fate of revolutionaries even if there is little attempt to connect ideas being expressed to what was going on in streets. Mentions of Lyon where Jacobins where a civil war was going on which prefigured fall of Jacobins must have been baffling to uninitiated.

I guess I'm not into this type of play. In my view even boredom died. It was dire. Comments in the toilets at the end indicated others were not enthralled by it either. Personally there are much better ways to spend two hours of one's life.