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 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 ...

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 ...

Radicals quite often come a cropper. Many of the early Bolshevik leaders went the way of the Tsar and his doomed family. The same was true in revolutionary France where the men who toppled Louis XVI ...

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, ...

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 ...