Trapped in the dazzling inferno of their existence, Edgar and Alice, two vampires madly in love to the point of death, dance to the rhythm of a peculiar totentanz (dance of death), repeating the same ever-evolving steps. Their world is a chaotic blend of utter confinement, a triumphantly failed marriage, outrageously comedic revenge, and gloriously doomed love.
Although pale as the dead, they pay meticulous attention to their hairstyles and clothing, which they ruin and remake on stage in fits of passion, hatred, or extreme indifference. Tonight, however, is no ordinary evening. The enthralling couple is celebrating twenty-five years of marriage, and everything has been arranged to exalt the most tedious daily routines, the exquisite pleasure of the dullest conversations, and the undeniable fact that they are truly the living dead.
But suddenly, Kurt arrives — a genuinely living person, a distant cousin and former suitor of Alice. This “normal” human becomes the catalyst for a night of abyssal chaos, the fresh blood in the war of these charming vampires. Over the ruins of this infernal celebration looms the question: will Edgar and Alice manage to drag Kurt into the vortex of their own adventure, or will the cousin-lover break free and escape, along with the audience, into the fresh air of the night?
Horror, brutality, biting humor, narcissistic eroticism, and extreme theatricality take on dimensions that are human, metaphysical, and almost religious.
Smoke machine is used used during the performance.
