Rather belatedly, I've found the theatre programme - running time 3 hours 45 mins, including a 15 min interval! It was at the RSC, so long running times were normal: when they did shorter modern plays, you'd get a double or triple bill. The programme notes are actually very good (by which I mean accurate and leftish - the first page is entirely devoted to a fair sized chunk of the 'terror and virtue' speech, a lot more than you'd come across in a standard English-language history book), and, whilst my memory's not good enough to say how much, the writer says she followed the original play pretty closely: I only had Wajda's film to compare it to at the time, but it was definitely more 'feminine'. A version of Les Dieux ont Soif has just opened this week in London, called 'Liberty', but I don't think I want to pay £45 plus train fare to be told the revolution was bad! (and like the Bush administration!)