“The other day I read in a newspaper that a man had been divorced seven times, which means that he also had been married seven times. Finally, at the age of ninety, he ran away with his first wife and married her again. Such is love. If life be serious, or merely a joke, is more than I can decide.”
August Strindberg in The Dance of Death

The Dance of Death talks about us, about the crisis of intimacy and the dangerous game of blaming the other for our choices and individual failures. Introducing a diabolical and desolate portrait of the life of a couple enclosed in the claustrophobic space of a living room and isolated from the world, this play talks about identity and character, about the infinite struggle between fear and desire. Miguel Guilherme, Isabel Abreu and Sérgio Praia confront each other in an intensely realistic and psychological rereading of this intimate drama, a founding text in contemporary drama that signals the return of Marco Martins to the São Luiz’s stage.