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Set in a decaying attic by the sea, this radical reworking of Rachilde’s French Symbolist play traces two people entangled in cycles of violence, care and control. Language fractures between clinical detachment and intimate confession as survival becomes performance. Lucie constructs narratives to contain horror; Paul absorbs and repeats them. Outside, the world remains distant, almost imagined. Blurring tenderness with complicity, the piece interrogates how violence and pain are rationalised, inherited and finally, endured. Visceral and claustrophobic, Madame La Mort stages the moment where…
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Madame La Mort is by Full Moon Theatre / Labyrinth Productions, listed under Theatre in the Fringe programme. It plays at theSpace @ Symposium Hall, Hill Square, EH8 9DR, 24 August to 29 August.
The show runs 50 minutes and is suitable for ages 16+. Tickets are £12. Content warnings: Distressing or triggering themes and Strong language.