Accounts of Committee meeting on March 30, '94 (when Danton's arrest was ordered)??

[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

I know that there aren't any official minutes of the March 30 joint meeting of the Committees (or any meeting, really), but there are at least partial accounts of what transpired. Does anyone know of a relatively complete account, either from some primary source document (ie. someone's memoirs) or something pieced together by historians)?

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[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

It was Pam Gems' adaptation, so not the full text, and I think it was heavily altered. I think the original play is pretty well unperformable as a straight play - it's written more like a dream, and I saw it in a proscenium arch theatre, when it would have been much better in a theatre-in-the-round type space, more intimate.

Out of curiosity, how was the trial (if it was shown onstage) handled? If it's in there, I'd imagine it's hard to do convincingly...

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I can't remember! It was 20 years ago - I think they did do it onstage, on benches, but I can't remember anything more useful than that. It's offstage in the original play, (I think - god my memory!), but I've read a note that says Wajda's 70's stage production seated the Tribunal in the audience, so I presume, as with the film, he added it from the surviving trial notes.