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 the fairytale comedy Leonce und Lena aside, rarely seen in English, that's it from playwright Büchner, who died of typhoid at 23 - three years younger than our still most lamented Romantic prodigy, John Keats. But Büchner’s form of determinism has always provided an opportunity to present Danton’s Death as an essentially anti-revolutionary play. I had good reason to think that Danton’s Death at the National Theatre, combining all of these things and chucking in a South Bank debut for superstar director Michael Grandage (he’s so hot right now), would be an excellent evening’s entertainment. Cast: David Beames – Gen. Billon Max Bennett – Hérault-Seychelles Stefano Braschi – Citizen Kirsty Bushell – Julie Jason Cheater – Citizen There's little action and much speechifying. Marion’s monologue retains its shocking character in the National Theatre production, but it is reduced to a purely personal statement that has no wider social significance once the crowd scenes are removed. Nothing. The play concerns the political crisis within the revolutionary movement that led to the deadly conflict between Danton and Robespierre and the beginning of the reaction that would shortly bring Napoleon Bonaparte to power. Incredibly, the Danton play had to wait another 65 years for its first performance, in Berlin in 1902. Danton approaches his death for the most part fatalistically and the flashes of resistance that he expresses prove to be futile. 32 PHOTOS “I’m sick of this rigmarole” Danton’s Death, the 1835 play about the French Revolution by Georg Büchner, marks an impressive brace of debuts: Toby Stephens making his first bow on the stage here in the title role and Michael Grandage, Artistic Director of the Donmar, making his directorial debut here on the South Bank. Information on repertoire of all three auditoriums, educational program, events, the 250 years history of Theatre and its premises. He's at his best in smaller-scale scenes, like the one in the pre-guillotine cell towards the end where he affectingly comforts his fellow lice-infested prisoners.By contrast, Elliot Levey is snake-like, thin-voiced and prissily narcissistic as Robespierre - wonderfully underlined on his first appearance as he dons his wig in front of a mirror like a primped courtier of the régime he's so lethally dismantled. He wrote it in 1835 in a matter of five weeks when he was on the run from the authorities in Hessen, where he had been involved in a revolutionary uprising. You've got a tricky Danton's Death on your hands when you're keener to watch, throughout, Danton's nemesis than the eponymous hero. The National Theatre production is Howard Brenton’s second version of the play. (And without giving too much away, the trompe-l'oeil used for four decapitations at the end is really quite ingenious...)There's virtue in the bare stage - simple tables, chairs and stools are brought on for the big Convention scenes and Danton's "trial"; the only concession to size, so to speak, in Christopher Oram's design are huge, oblong, shuttered, rather sinister windows opening and closing behind a gallery from where declamations are made. A film or television director can cut between scenes as rapidly as Büchner and expect his audience to grasp what is happening. Yet something is missing. Why is Robespierre trying to kill Danton? A knife for the people that buy the flesh of our wives and daughters.”. In the 19th century Danton’s Death offered a new way of looking at sexual relationships and the dramatic techniques Büchner developed to express his insights were no less new. In 2010, Brenton created a new version of the play for a revival at the Royal National Theatre , directed by Michael Grandage and starring Toby Stephens as Danton. Sat 17 Jul 2010 19.03 EDT. The revolutionary implications of her speech are lost and the audience’s preconceptions are not challenged. He is left as a rather effete, weary man who simply cannot be bothered to take the necessary action to defend himself. Reviews on opera, ballet, and theatre ... Danton’s Death, National Theatre, NT Olivier, August 2010. He seems more to recite Brenton's tumbling and creditably contemporary lines than to be occupying the part. The play was written by Georg Büchner at the age of just 21 in 1835, and has been described as one of the greatest revolutionary works in European theatre. Michael Grandage’s production of Danton’s Death at the National Theatre, starring Toby Stephens as the revolutionary Georg Danton, is beautifully staged. It is an interpretation that says more about the outlook of the current intellectual world and one time left-wing playwright Brenton than it does about Büchner. Corinna Lotz reviews Danton’s Death at the National Theatre. “Danton’s Death” at the National Theatre 3 November 2014 Edward Lukes Leave a comment As anyone who has attempted Hilary Mantel’s supernovel on the theme will know, revolutionary France seems to have been a fairly confusing place. Some critics have interpreted Danton as a self-portrait of Büchner and suggested that he had become disillusioned with revolution by the time he wrote the play. There is a sharp contrast here between Brenton’s foray into the 18th century and Trevor Griffiths’ A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine. A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths[18 September 2009], Angry young man going nowhereThomas Ostermeier’s adaptation of Büchner’s classic Danton’s Death at the Berlin Schaubühne[28 April 2001]. The prostitute Marion has a long monologue in which she explains her attitude to sexuality. Danton's Death, National Theatre Revolution in under two hours in a new version of Büchner's longest play. That character is not an individual, or rather it is the many individuals who make up the crowd, the mass of the population, the sans culottes, the poor who must get their living by selling their labour and their bodies on the streets of Paris. In fact it loses something crucial. In German, Dantons Tod can run to four hours or more. It is a powerful dramatic technique so long as all the parts are present. It is 1794 and the French Revolution is reaching its climax. Why can Danton not resist? Danton's Death. He was by training a scientist and doctor. Danton’s Death examines the nature of revolution, the relationship between men and women, friendship, class, determinism, materialism and the role of theatre itself. Toby Stephens as Danton in Danton's Death at the National Theatre Credit: Photo: Alastair Muir To cut these sudden shifts out of the play is to make it a less revolutionary piece of theatre than it was and has no justification when modern theatre audiences would hardly be confused by such a technique. Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews. In his National Theatre debut, Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Michael Grandage handles the declamatory set-pieces with aplomb but there is little sense of the chaos in the streets or of real danger pressing, though the final guillotine scene is well executed. He was arrested, condemned and executed. A letter he wrote to his fiancée Minna Jaeglé at about this time is often cited as evidence of his pessimism. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. Danton’s Death, National Theatre: Olivier, London. He allows us to examine his meticulously prepared specimens and draw our own conclusions rather than beating us over the head with his message. Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner Adapted by Howard Brenton. While there is plenty of inventive television and film, the unique conditions of the stage often require more imagination, from both audience and creators. Danton needs heft, a kind of physical heartiness which an almost schoolboyish Stephens lacks. East Denton Hall is a Grade I listed building dating from the early 17th century and is the residence of The Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. Both of them are crowd scenes. In plays by his equally wordy, history-obsessed predecessor, Friedrich von Schiller, there are at least fights, battles, a lot of love - and some sex. Nonetheless, this is the interpretation that Brenton and Grandage offer the audience at the National. Performance - 03/02/2018 . Revolutions necessarily end in futility amid factional fighting and senseless bloodshed according to this version of the play. Taking out the two crowd scenes indelibly fixes this interpretation. In Danton’s Death, written in 1835 by German radical Georg Büchner when he was just 21, the passion, fury and bloodlust of the revolution are given free rein — as are the arguments for and against political violence. Neither man is truly himself once the crowd scenes are taken out of the play. The absence of genuine intimacy in private sexual relations is organically connected in the play to the character of public social relations. Danton's Death, about the French Revolution but also about friendship, loyalty, personal (as opposed to strictly political) courage and betrayal, remains a very big and difficult play to stage in English.Howard Brenton has taken a step back from it since his first 1982 version. The immediate problem is that Brenton has removed two small scenes from the original play. In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the decline in trade union activity in the West, it has become extremely difficult for writers to imagine a revolution in anything other than the most disastrous terms. The acting is all serviceable, but Toby Stephens as Danton is another weak link in this strangely underwhelming production.He's natty and articulate, but slight. Even in the early 20th century when Büchner was revived there was something shocking about his clear-eyed, unsentimental attitude towards sexuality and his sudden shifts from intensely private and intimate scenes to the public arena. When he died in 1837 he had just won a teaching position at the University of Zurich. Olivier, London. When he takes on his foes, one needs to feel that this man is going to explode, not just expostulate. It uses a simple and elegant set to good effect. Büchner’s dramatic method was in keeping with his form of materialism, which was intensely biological. In German, Dantons Tod can run to four hours or more. Share. When Marion’s monologue and the missing scene are brought together we can see that Büchner is saying that the quality of personal, sexual relations is diminished by a society that is dominated by social inequality and in which some people must sell their sexual favours to survive. Like Danton and Robespierre she has been pulled out of context by this simple excision of two small scenes. Simply enter your email address in the box below. Similarly, Danton’s Death at the National Theatre had a breathtakingly realistic guillotine scene which was so effective that it was almost distracting as I struggled to spot how it was done. The final execution scene is powerfully done. Danton without the crowd is not really Danton. The American and French Revolutions provide Griffiths with a context in which revolution can still be imaginatively recreated and a connection made with contemporary class concerns. 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. If you feel able, please share this post with your networks, How we do Death is the conversation we have to have! Written by Georg Büchner, it’s a new adaptation by Howard Brenton. Within months he knew this power was a terrible mistake and fought to have it ended with tragic consequences. Photo credit: Johan Persson, Elliot Levey (left) as Robespierre and Toby Stephens (right) as Georges Danton. The instrument of silence—the emblematic guillotine—provides this production of “Danton’s Death” with its most remarkable moment. Tickets £10 to £30 (almost half all tickets at £10). • It was the basis for the 1921 German silent film Danton directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Emil Jannings as Danton. They are very short scenes in an already short play and it is difficult to see that there was any good reason for dropping them. ... T his is the third production in the National's history of Büchner's 1835 masterpiece written when he was only 21. Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. It uses a simple and elegant set to good effect. Since then it has come to be regarded as one of the key starting points of modern European literature. Many of the performances are first rate: Elliot Levey as Robespierre, Kirstie Bushell as Julie, Danton’s wife, and Eleanor Matsuura as the prostitute Marion, are particularly strong. The Olivier National Theatre has long had a reputation for staging some of the most important pieces of theatre within its walls, a trend which it is set to continue with a return to the National of a play which has been billed as one of the greatest political tragedies ever written. Michael Grandage’s production of Danton’s Death at the National Theatre, starring Toby Stephens as the revolutionary Georg Danton, is beautifully staged. His materialism is in that sense pre-Marxist. There are three auditoriums within the National Theatre. It is strangely out of context without one of the missing scenes in which a husband and wife argue about their daughter who has turned to prostitution to support the family. Robespierre himself would not long survive him. Robespierre was able to defeat him because he still reflected the interests of that social layer. In isolation Marion’s monologue appears distinctly misogynistic as though Büchner wanted to present women as calculating, mercenary and lacking in profound human feelings. It seems to offer an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration. The official website of National Theatre in Warsaw. The events and personalities involved in this conflict have been an endless and fruitful source of fascination for writers, historians and revolutionaries. The play was written on his dissection table and it has something of the character of a dissection about it in which each organ, each social element, is laid out before us in an entirely objective manner. What on earth is it all about? It’s her hunger what whores and begs. 'Danton's Death' is a power struggle between old chums who've basically fallen out. It was adapted by the English playwright Howard Brenton in 1982 as Danton's Death, using a translation by Brenton's wife, Jane Fry. Alec Newman is also gutsily fanatical as the arguably insane Saint-Just.I still think this production is in the wrong theatre - in the Cottesloe it would pack a punch; the Olivier demands big thinking and, in this play especially, giant acting. Danton's Death at London's National Theatre Howard Brenton's new adaptation of Georg Büchner's Danton's Death , running at London's National Theatre, opened July 22. 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Many of the performances are first rate: Elliot Levey as George Danton and Maximilien Robespierre were central figures in the tumultuous five years that saw the revolutionary overthrow of the monarchy of Louis XV1 and the creation of the first French Republic. It is difficult to square the image of a disillusioned man with the man who was plotting to break his comrades out of prison and establish a printing press to spread the message of social equality in semi-feudal Germany. Danton's Death, about the French Revolution but also about friendship, loyalty, personal (as opposed to strictly political) courage and betrayal, remains a very big and difficult play to stage in English.Howard Brenton has taken a step back from it since his first 1982 version. €€€Michael Grandage’s production of Danton’s Death at the National Theatre, starring Toby Stephens as the revolutionary Georg Danton, is beautifully staged. Büchner’s play was one of the first and most brilliant literary attempts to grapple with the subject. Click here for information on this production of Danton’s Death (includes casting breakdown and links to their resumes). National Theatre Directed by Michael Grandage Designer – Christopher Oram Lighting Designer – Paule Constable Music and Sound – Adam Cork. Georges Danton had been one of the leaders of the French Revolution along with Maximilien Robespierre, but he began to have doubts about the Terror that had consigned opponents of the revolution to the guillotine. The reason is the range of themes, all them relevant to the modern world, which it addresses. With June Bailey, Robert Bernal, Donald Bradley, Avril Elgar. It's become a chamber drama, featuring long-haired Parisian firebrands in tailcoats and breeches who bat back and forth, in relentlessly public-school English, the merits and very considerable downsides of their ghastly 1790s experiment - and which would work well in the National's studio space, the Cottesloe, or on TV or radio.Epic proportion, embodied by Büchner in a deadly journey Georges Danton took from fiery forger of the Revolution to its most prominent public, and popular, victim, has gone. Why should this play have such a powerful attraction? Marion’s lack of affect has a social basis when both scenes are present. Photo credit: Johan Persson, From global Pandemic to global class struggle, A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths. International Committee of the Fourth International, Toby Stephens as Georges Danton. Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer. Review – Danton’s Life / Danton’s Death, National Theatre. Danton’s Death, the famed play by German writer Georg Büchner, follows the conflict which took place in March and April 1794 within the “Mountain”—the most revolutionary wing of the French National Convention. Thursday 5 August 2010. This is a Danton's Death about precisely that, one man's death surrounded by scoundrels - Robespierre but especially Saint-Just - who bay for it and by condemned allies who part from him affectionately before the guillotine brings it on. Theatre - Danton's Death - National Theatre Star rating – 5/10. The play gains nothing in clarity without them. This production of Georg Buchner’s ‘Danton’s Death’ at the National sadly does neither. Words take centre stage in the National Theatre's bravura staging of Danton's Death. Howard Brenton has no problem with such rapid shifts in his own television work for the thriller Spooks. Focusing on the Terror of 1794, Büchner's 1835 play Danton's Death was written in secret when … by James Woodall Friday, 23 July 2010. The story of Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, who created the office of the Revolutionary Tribunal as a strong arm for the Revolutionary Government. If that relationship is left out of the play then Robespierre loses his historical stature and is reduced to a rather dogmatic man with a prissy concern for morality. Danton’s Death by Georg Buchner in a new version by Howard Brenton is at the National Theatre in London until 14 October. It is perhaps better known in Germany than on the British stage, but it is a play to which English writers have repeatedly returned. But for Brenton, the French Revolution only offers further confirmation of the hopelessness of the entire revolutionary project whether in the 18th century or the 21st. Streamed at wsws.org/mayday. I wonder whether Grandage would do better at Leonce und Lena... Get a weekly digest of our critical highlights in your inbox each Thursday! Büchner is offering us an autopsy of the French Revolution performed at the moment when it reaches its fatal impasse. The problem is that if any one of those themes is emphasised at the expense of the others then the entire character of the work is transformed. The longest and most densely historical play by Georg Büchner (1813-37) is a potential monster. It happens in the best of revolutionary circles, I suppose. Toby Stephens as Danton (Johan Persson) Sponsored. and Danton reappears in his A New World meeting with Thomas Paine in prison as he does in Büchner’s play. What brought Danton to the head of the revolution was his relationship with the sans culottes. It might almost be a personal dispute between these two men and Danton’s inability to avoid his death the result of an unaccountable, psychological lethargy on his part. In terms of philosophy this is a weakness, but as far as drama is concerned it need not be, particularly in relation to the French Revolution whose participants had only a limited understanding of the role of consciousness themselves. What has she done? The fact that such a small piece of editing can have such a major effect on the play points to the masterly precision of Büchner’s technique. Those two missing scenes, small though they are, are essential to the play. Online Tickets and Bookshop. What was a revolutionary technique in Büchner’s day is the stock in trade of modern cinema and television. Consciousness, either social or individual, played a very subsidiary role for Büchner. Danton's Death - National Theatre, Wednesday 11th August 2010 Synopsis: Three revolutionary groups are presented at the start of the play - Danton's supporters, Robespierre's supporters, and those who do not agree with how the Revolution has evolved. What we get is lucid, watchable but not always terribly exciting: it's Büchner-light. Click here for a synopsis of Danton’s Death … It’s the spring of 1794 and the revolution is at a crucial point. Running time is hardly a question. Once this element is removed from the play we are left with a largely personal drama in which two individuals are pitted against one another in a conflict that lacks any substantial basis in the wider framework of social relations. The effect of taking them out is to unbalance the whole work because omitting them removes a character that has a vital role to play in the conflict between Danton and Robespierre. Modern theatre-goers already have this dramatic vocabulary at their disposal. Toby Stephens before rehearsals for Danton's Death at the National theatre. I like history, I like politics and I like theatre. I like history, I like politics and I like theatre. Saturday, May 1, 11AM US Eastern Time. In a new translation for the Olivier, directed by National Theatre debutant Michael Grandage, Brenton has cut all street scenes and sans-culottes - the choric proletarian burbling of the original - and pinned a monster back to a fleet-footed gazelle of a play, now coming in at under two hours. Other characters and themes of the play are similarly left hanging in the air without the crowd scenes. He was inclined to see society as an organism in which each part was organically related to another so that social processes and the actions of individuals were to a large extent predetermined. ... Danton's Death. So shocking did it seem in the 19th century that it was not premiered until 1902. It was dull and unrelenting, and while Toby Stephens' extremely emotive portrayal of Danton may have been convincing, it didn't elicit my sympathy. What they do not have is Büchner’s grasp of the impact of gross social inequalities on intimate sexual relationships which they are predisposed to understand in precisely those sentimental terms that Büchner rejected. There's little action and much speechifying. Danton's Death, National Theatre 2010. The longest and most densely historical play by Georg Büchner (1813-37) is a potential monster. Michael Grandage, the Artistic Director of the much-acclaimed Donmar Warehouse, makes his National Theatre directorial debut with Georg Buchner’s Danton’s Death, in a new version by Howard Brenton.. Trevor Griffiths has written about Danton’s last night in Who Shall be Happy ... ? But Büchner was engaged in intense secret revolutionary activity while he was writing Danton’s Death. Posts about danton’s death written by differentkate. He expressed their material interest in overthrowing the unequal state of affairs that existed in France under the ancien regime and establishing a more just society. The premiere of The History of the National Theatre, a series of books commemorating the National Stage’s 250th anniversary. Built by Anthony Errington in 1622, his family lost the estate after siding with the King during the English Civil War. For me a political play needs to explain its context adequately for its audience, and to give its characters some depth. The final execution scene is powerfully done. The point which Büchner is making only becomes clear when Marion’s speech is set beside one of the missing scenes in which a citizen declares, “Yes, a knife, but not for the poor tart. Danton’s Death, National Theatre 01 Aug. He would be guillotined a few weeks later in July, or Thermidor as it was known in the revolutionary calendar. Not be bothered to take the necessary action to defend himself his Minna... 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