Danton's Death
By Georg Buchner
The great classic play about the French Revolution, and one of its major figures, Georges Danton, the wine and women loving sensualist and fighter, who, just before he was executed on the guillotine, proclaimed that “as for politics, I should have stayed a pig farmer”
.Reviews
Another Fringe defector (to the International Festival) is Gerry Mulgrew’s Communicado, whose new version of Buchner’s DANTON’S DEATH at the St. Brides’s Centre is tight, muscular, beautifully staged and lit. The heroes really are the people, which is not what the play is about; the ecstatic plebs are encased in rooms and cabinets like those grimy iconographic shipyard workers and football supporters in the neo-expressionist paintings of the new Glasgow School. The music of Karen Wimhurst is outstanding, superbly perfomed.
The Observer 1990
Nothing that they do at St. Bride’s Centre diminishes their standing in my eyes as our most exciting theatrical ensemble. They’re the nearest thing we’ve ever had to those multi-disciplined East European troupes who can make stage magic out of nothing. Mulgrew’s direction is as dramatically inventive as ever, bubbling and erupting, simmering into deep silence then boiling over, cleverly improvising, constantly surprising.
Scotland on Sunday 1990
The production…..is another Communicado success combining fine atmospheric music and song, a striking set and polished ensemble performances from a strong cast
Edinburgh Evening News 1990
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