'He's a vampire. He sucks the life out of people because his own life bores him so much.'A plague rages across Europe. On a remote island, former actress Alice and army officer Captain Edgar are quarantined together – locked in a bitter, brutal and compulsive marriage.When an old friend arrives to help celebrate their wedding anniversary, it's the perfect excuse for the couple to take their games to a terrifying new level.Filled with wit and savagery, Richard Eyre's thrilling version of August Strindberg's Dance of Death is a darkly comic portrait of psychological warfare. It premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in 2026.
Richard Eyre is a writer, theatre director, and former Artistic Director of the National Theatre. His previous work for the stage includes The Snail House, and revelatory adaptations of three Ibsen plays: Hedda Gabler, Ghosts and Little Eyolf.
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'A dramatic masterpiece... grotesquely funny... a profound exploration of existential futility'
Emma Adbåge, Lisen Adbåge, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Bengt Cidden Andersson, Werner Aspenström, Kaj Beckman, Aase Berg, Bo Bergman, Erik Blomberg, Daniel Boyacioglu, Karin Boye, Tage Danielsson, Elmer Diktonius, Vilhelm Ekelund, Gunnar Ekelöf, Nils Ferlin, Tua Forsström, Gustaf Fröding, Brita af Geijerstam, Albert Teodor Gellerstedt, Hjalmar Gullberg, Britt G Hallqvist, Verner von Heidenstam, Lennart Hellsing, Ann Jäderlund, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Thekla Knös, Israel Kolmodin, Pär Lagerkvist, Anna Maria Lenngren, Mecka Lind, Barbro Lindgren, Erik Lindorm, Hanna Lundström, Harry Martinsson, Mårten Melin, Jila Mossaed, Henry Parland, Anna Rydstedt, Gunnar Mascoll Silfverstolpe, Ingrid Sjöstrand, August Strindberg, Edith Södergran, Zacharias Topelius, Tomas Tranströmer, Siv Widerberg, Claes Bäckström, Maria Wine, Carl David af Wirsén, Sonja Åkesson, Bruno K Öijer, Anders Österling