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