LIGHTING DESIGN

Danton's Death

DANTON’S DEATH

Danton’s Death

by Georg Büchner

1/8” scale model for theoretical set design

During the French Revolution, suspicion fuels beheadings. What started out justified has barreled forward unstoppably. The human lives accumulate, and everybody has to wonder when their time will come.

The wall of columbaria turns translucent; behind it, blank mannequin heads gradually accumulate.