Danton's Tod is probably Büchners most famous play. In the marriage of the reign of terror, the French Revolution degenerated more and more to a mass spectacle. The executions were startings for the leasurement of / leasing one’s window seats, pastry and alcohol found a ready market / went fast. The idea of freedom met a brute power struggle, whose protagonists were Danton and Robespierre.
Georg Büchner describes both of them in the condition of exhaustion, doers/actors of a gigantic feast, whose main attraction was the guillotine. This terror was an unknown excitement for this first mass society, dying in public became a carnival / fair attraction. The dream of a more just world had come to an end, Danton and Robespierre themselves had already become unconscious figures, who were not capable of stopping the stream of destruction anymore. After having seen enough of death, for the masses a new area of economized ways of life initiates.
Directed by Roberto Ciulli, starring Volker Roos, Fabio Menéndez, Albert Bork and others
The play will be performed on Friday 3 October at 20.15 hours
Tickets cost €24,- €22,- and €16,- and you receive a €1,50 discount with your The HaGuest Card
Reservations : 0900 345 67 89 (€0,10 per minute) or www.ks.nl
The Play is in GERMAN and there are DUTCH surtitles!
Friday 3 October, 20.15
Location:
De Koninklijke Schouwburg
Korte Voorhout 3
2511 CW The Hague
By public transport:
Tram 1 to Kneuterdijk and an approx. 6-minute walk;
Tram 16 or 17 to Korte Voorhout and an approx. 1-minute walk.
Bus 4 or 22 to Kneuterdijk and an approx. 6-minute walk;
Bus 18 to Malieveld and an approx. 2-minute walk.