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

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by Georg Büchner
Translated by John Holmstrom
Cast in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column) 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: March and April 1794. Place: The streets, revolutionary courts, and gaols of Paris; also the guillotine.
The Revolution in threatened by foreign armies on all the frontiers and by counter-revolution at home. Robes-pierre and the Committee of Pubic Safety have just executed the ultfa-revolutiionaries (Hébertistes), and in thia play they begin to liquidate the Moderates, whose leader is Danton.
During the interval (8.55-9.6 app.):
Gretry
Sonata in B flat, Op. 1 No. played by Gilbert Jespersen (flute)
Erling Bloch (violin)
Asger Christiansen cello) Lund Christiansen (piano) on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Georg Büchner
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
Flute:
Gilbert Jespersen
Violin:
Erling Bloch
Cello:
Asger Christiansen
Piano:
Lund Christiansen
Danton:
Donald Wolfit
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 Dias
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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