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Donald Wolfit and Walter Hudd in 'DANTON'S DEATH'

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by Georg Buchner
Translated by John Holmstrom
Cast in order of speaking: with Mary Wimbush , Nicolette Bernard Dorothy Holmes-Gore , Diane Watts
Music composed and conducted by Francis Chagrin
The play adapted and produced by R. D. Smith
Time: Much and April 1794. Place: The streets, revolutionary courts, and gaols of Paris; also the guillotine.
R. D. Smith writes on page 7
During the interval In the performance of the play ' Danton's Death ':
7.15-7.30 app. Cherubini
Orchestral music: gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Georg Buchner
Translated By:
John Holmstrom
Unknown:
Mary Wimbush
Unknown:
Nicolette Bernard
Unknown:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Unknown:
Diane Watts
Conducted By:
Francis Chagrin
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Unknown:
R. D. Smith
Danton:
Donald Wolflt
Julie:
Catherine Salkeld
Herault-de-Sechelles:
Noel Johnson
Camille Desmoulins:
Anthony Jacobs
Philippeau:
John Phillips
Simon, a drunkard:
Brian Wilde
His wife:
Joan Littlewood
First citizen:
Joe Sterne
Second citizen:
Geoffrey Matthews
Robespierre:
Walter Hudd
Lyons delegate:
Manning Wilson
Collot d'Herbois:
Jack Allen
Legendre:
Richard Bebb
Lacroix:
Geoffrey Wincott
Marion:
Selma Vaz Diaa
St Just:
Malcolm Hayes
Beggar:
Ewan MacColl
Lucile:
Betty Linton
Chaumette:
Haydn Jones
Tom Payne:
Brian Haines
Fouquier-Tinville:
Peter Howell
Dillon:
Derek Birch
Laflotte:
Richard Waring
Gaoler:
Henry Webb
Barere:
John Dearth
Billaud-Varennes:
Ian Lubbock
Dumas:
Brian Wilde
First carter:
Malcolm Hayes
Second carter:
Jeffrey Segal

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