... (inaugurated September, 1793), they argued for opposite models of human ly threatened to set Tz'ny A Nee, to which ending with Danton's execution (April, perfection, the real and the opera Danton Albee always responded that he thought 1794), and Robespierre's (july, 1794). A and Robespierre both fall...

... Robespierre and Danton confront each the discipline of a seven-and-a-half-by- and Jadwiga Kosicka. Tbgether with the other as genius and nemesis, positive fifteen-footparterre flat in the Free City selected letters they comprise a sym- and “renegade” charisma. of Danzig, isolating herself from...

..., 100 Ronald Pickup (Saint-Just), Charles Kay (Robespierre), and Christopher Plummer (Danton) at the National Theatre, London. Directed by Jonathan Miller, 1971. these men unaccommodated with the skins that differentiate them, are reflected in virtually all his writings. In an oft-quoted...

... For example, the following lines in the was so well known that the highly central scene, which contains the con- innovative and original work of the frontation between Oanton and 47 Robespierre, can be traced...

... is not suicidal. Revolu- theories. His precision and intensity of tions from Robespierre's time to Stalin's movement made it difficult to forget have destroyed their own creators, or that he was acting, though he was too sent them into exile. This tendency to- much at ease, too subtle, to be ac- ward...

...: the basic method of understanding. Danton, The Revolutionaries Meet Saint-Just, Robespierre, Lucy-these are all characters who carry with them not only the Daniel Stern fragments and detritus of history that have...

... ence. Biichner could not even have of; that there is not even a major con- seen much theatre; his school was his frontation between Danton and politically and otherwise active life, Robespierre. To the first objection the and, of course, his reading. The influ- answer...

... ofGalileo. Although he about modern science, humanity’s revisions (1945-47).Galileo is really not (top center) as disagreed with the approach of Director dangerous but exhilarating interven- an Atomic Age play. The horrors of the Robespierre. John Dexter, who was very specific in tion in nat~re...

... denouement. Georges Danton, the most important of the moderates, is going to "lose" as a result of what takes place; Robespierre and Saint-Just, his chief adversaries, are, provision- ally, going to "win." To a critic looking for the truth of the play on the level of actual history everything appears...

... Edgar Barrier Lucile EvelynWahl Herault De Sechelles Morgan Farley Philippeau Erskine Sanford Lacroix Guy Kingsley Robespierre Vladimir Sokoloff 1st Old Man George Duthie 2nd Old Man Erskine Sanford Marion ArleneFrancis Rosalie Ruth Ford Legendre...

..., Caesar’s death at the hands of conspirators in Georg Büchner’s Danton as he is led to the guillotine on Robespierre’s orders. I have tried to show how, contrary to what the naive defenders of chronology believe, the great playwrights converse with one another or rather mutually infect one another...

... themselves felt only when, to use Robespierre's 1990 (cloth) $22.95. phrase, they are their own spectacle:" and a 1929 appeal advising Soviet authors to "carefully study the comedies of David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action by Anne Dean, Aristophanes [which despite the passage of time have...

... mind which found the Death, is devoured by Robespierre, Olympian idealism of Thomas Mann as rendered impotent by his sense of fake as that of Schiller, BUchner's ec- universal chaos and human weakness: static nihilism, his surreal images, and "What are we but puppets, manipu...

... tiers of whispers by ac- ly. Robespierre opposes the divestiture of church power, and the peo- tors planted among the spectators, the Revolution slowly acquires ple are stripped of their power. Through the narration more than the momentum. In semi-darkness, groups of spectators gather about one...

... Robespierre repete la Revolution (The entails giving shape to the present. This was clearly the in- Subway Stop “Ropespierre” Rehearses the Revolution),an im- tent behind Jean-Paul Goude’s orchestration of his prodigious provised multi-media performance in which the hopeless Bastille Day Parade...

... and first staged in and knows how easily social tumult can superfluous 1983;but, as the Herrhausen killing in- paralyze the same people it Feans to to create a counter-world dicates, the play’s concerns are just as rouse. Radicals from Robespierre to to present the dreams of fear...