Description:
"A dramatic masterpiece...a profound exploration of existential futility." --The Times
A plague rages across Europe. On a remote island, former actress Alice and army Captain Edgar are quarantined together-locked in a bitter, brutal, and addictive marriage. When an old friend arrives to help celebrate their wedding anniversary, it's the perfect excuse for the couple to take their terrifying games to a new level.
August Strindberg's masterpiece Dance of Death is a darkly comic portrait of psychological warfare-a toxic love story that continues to thrill audiences today.
Review Quotes:
"Richard Eyre's candescent adaptation brings comedy and tenderness alongside Strindberg's savagery...a terrible tango to the death but one which brings a rare and captivating pathos."
--Guardian"An intense, bitter and often funny triumph...electrifying."
--London Standard"Imagine a gloomy, Nordic middle-aged version of Love Island in which the couple bond because they loathe everyone on the island, especially each other...Eyre's sweary, funny adaptation makes the most of the biting humour."
--Time Out"A grim vision of human relationships and it is to...Brilliant but bleakly so."
--WhatsOnStage"A stripped-down version that crackles with cruel wit...Eyre's version waltzes through the story's increasingly shocking turns at a rattling pace, stripping out superfluous characters while leaning into the play's utterly bleak humour."
--The Stage"A grotesque dance of power play...it's not pretty but it is quite delicious."
--BroadwayWorld"Before the lacerating spats of Albee's Martha and George, and the circular kvetching of Beckett's characters, there were August Strindberg's pioneering excursions into dark psychological truths...Richard Eyre's achievement is to make the piece relatable."
--Arts Desk"A deeply thoughtful, intelligent and invigorating take on the text...quite remarkable."
--West End Best Friend