Georg Buchner's tragedy newly translated from the German by Victor Price
Other principal characters:
Music selected from the works of C. P. E. Bach and played by Lionel Salter on a contemporary piano at the Colt Clavier Collection, Bethersden
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
(Ronald Pickup is a National Theatre player)
(Second broadcast)

Danton's Death is the only one of Buchner's plays to be published in his lifetime-he wrote it in 1835 when he was twenty-two. The play is based on authentic documents and some of the speeches are taken verbatim from the records. Yet this is more than a mere history play-it is a poem on sensuality, love, and death. It was so far In advance of its time that it did not get a performance until 1913.