MADAME LA MORT

A two-bed flat in Reading.
2025.
Grey IKEA rug. Dirty plates.
Or
A decadent Parisian salon.
1891.
Velvet chaise longue. Cigars.

For Juliette, a recent graduate, life derails after a traumatic accident. One year later, she has transformed the flat she shares with her roommate Jamie into a late-19th-century Parisian salon, reconstructing her reality, her identity, and her sense of self around a fantasy of the past.

The people closest to her come to intervene. Her ex-therapist Jack makes a final attempt to confront her morphine dependency, formed after the accident. Her girlfriend Lucie is struggling to hold their relationship together as Juliette disappears further into her imagination.

What they don’t know: Juliette has laced one cigarette in a pack with a lethal dose of morphine. She smokes them at random.

Will it be today?

Madame la Mort is a queer, ultra-modern work-in-progress performance inspired by Rachilde’s experimental symbolist text, reimagined through movement and recorded sound. It pulls us into a world where decadence becomes defence, and performance is the only thing keeping death at bay.

Seductive. Darkly comic. Audacious.

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Part of Write Club 2026

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Running time:​ Approximately 45 minutes

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LATECOMERS MAY NOT BE ADMITTED.

UNDER 18s ARE NOT PERMITTED INTO THE THEATRE FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. 

No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. 
Refunds and exchanges are not available.