3 pieces to think about the world around us

1. Danton and Robespierre

Théâtre des Gémeaux, Paris, until January 3, 2026
From 12 years old

Five years after taking the Bastille, Robespierre and Danton meet secretly. A bewildered by justice and equality, the pillars of the Revolution oppose the means of achieving it.

Danton implores Robespierre to put an end to the terror and the carts of condemned, invites the most eminent member of the Committee of Public Safety. The people are hungry, why impose such despotism when the privileges have been abolished?

Faced with the sensual Danton whose head is threatened, the austere Robespierre remains marble. He wants to obtain virtue with fear, replace having it by being, drunk with the single thought and the new world he wants to build. Should we flout human rights to save men from themselves?

Direct democracy, representation of women, law to work, ecology, modernism, all the great debates of today oppose the two men in a oratory game which has not aged. The success of the play signed by Hugues Leforestier (which interprets Danton) is due to the perspective of the political situation of yesterday with that of today.

Troubled by the repetition of the risks of the exercise of power, enriched by the recall of the drifts of 1789, carried by the jubilant dialogue, the convincing interpretation of the actors-Nathalie Mann embodies a more true than life Robespierre-the spectator-citizen is cultivated, laughs and thinks of the same momentum.

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