What happens when the world is locked down – and there’s nowhere to run?
Making its world premiere in June 2025 at the Libra Theatre Café in Camden, The Dance of Death is a blistering new adaptation of August Strindberg’s classic— a ferocious and intimate two-hander becomes an intimate showdown between two lifelong lovers trapped together in lockdown—and in each other.
Set in May 2020, at the height of the first Covid lockdown, this unflinching production thrusts audiences into the suffocating confines of a London flat, where a once-glittering creative couple implodes under the weight of years spent performing love.
Theatres are closed. Futures are on hold. And inside their cramped domestic prison, Alice—a former rising star—and Edgar—her husband and director—wage a war of words, wounds, and warped intimacy. Secrets ignite. Power shifts. With the ghost of Kurt, Alice’s former collaborator and lover, lingering just out of reach, the story becomes a slow-burning reckoning of romantic sabotage, artistic control, and the impossibility of starting over.
Unspooling at a time when fear was at its highest, what begins as a bitter quarrel becomes a slow, exquisite autopsy of a relationship built on sabotage, control, and survival.
Written and directed by award-winning Glenn T. Griffin, The Dance of Death stars Simina Ellis and Tom Ray in a performance of unrelenting tension, intimacy, and raw emotion.
This is not a period piece—it’s a razor-wire reckoning with our recent past. We all have our Covid story. This one might be yours.
When: June 19 to 28, 2025
Time: 19:30
Where: Libra Theatre Cafe - 37 Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AJ (Camden)
Running time: 90 minutes without intermission
Tickets: here