This play ends with Lucille Desmoulins crying out "Long Live the King" so that she can join her recently guillotined husband, and one of its most famous scenes has its protagonist expressing regret over his role in the September Massacres.
Orson Welles directed the first American staging of this play only days after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, and Robert Wilson called his staging of this play a "visual book." About one-sixth of this play's dialogue is derived from historical documents, mainly the works of Mignet and Thiers. Thomas Paine appears in the third act of this play, preaching atheism to a group of prisoners. The protagonist's wife Julie poisons herself in the final act, though her real-life counterpart, actually named Louise, outlived this work's playwright. This play ends with Lucille Desmoulins crying out "Long Live the King" so that she can join her recently guillotined husband, and one of its most famous scenes has its protagonist expressing regret over his role in the September Massacres. For 10 points, name this first play written by Georg Buchner, about the execution of a certain French revolutionary.
Orson Welles directed the first American staging of this play only days after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, and Robert Wilson called his staging of this play a "visual book."
Danton's Death [or Dantons Tod]