Danton’s Death

Mladinsko Theatre, City Theatre Ptuj and Maribor 2012 – European Capital of Culture

Running time 3 hours. One interval.
Première: 24 April 2012, Upper Hall, Mladinsko Theatre, and 16 May 2012, City Theatre Ptuj
 

Performance is supertitled in English.

Original title Dantons Tod

Translator Bruno Hartman
Director Jernej Lorenci
Assistant director and choreographer Gregor Luštek
Dramaturg Matic Starina
Set designer Branko Hojnik
Costume designer Belinda Radulović
Composer Branko Rožman
Language consultant Maja Cerar
Lighting designer Matjaž Brišar
Sound technician Marijan Sajovic
Make-up designer Barbara Pavlin
Stage manager Janez Pavlovčič

Cast
Georges Danton, deputy Matija Vastl
Legendre, deputy Ivan Godnič
Camille Desmoulins, deputy Alja Kapun
Hérault-Séchelles, deputy Uroš Kaurin
Lacroix, deputy Boris Kos
Robespierre, member of the Committee for Public Safety Blaž Šef
Saint-Just, member of the Committee for Public Safety Marinka Štern
Barère, member of the Committee for Public Safety Željko Hrs
Collot d’Herbois, member of the Committee for Public Safety Dario Varga
Billaud-Varennes, member of the Committee for Public Safety Maruša Gemayer-Oblak
Julie, Danton’s wife Maruša Kink
Lucile, Camille Desmoulins’ husband Marko Mlačnik
Marion, prostitute Daša Doberšek

Danton’s Death (1835) is not just a story about the French revolution and the confrontation between Danton and Robespierre but above all a story on the eternal and still unresolved questions of life, moral, meaning, and ethics. The production reveals the banality of great political shifts and the absurdity of history when it interprets those shifts through the consequences of the participants’ actions. Each historical event that we study through dates and dry facts hides in fact an intricate fate of a group of individuals who have shaped and were at once shaped by that event. The feelings of affection, friendliness and love among them make history as much as an idea that brought them together. The life and the death of Danton and all those who lived back then are the life and the death of revolution.