Dance of Death: Hell is other people and sometimes the person you’re married to

The action, shifted forward to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, has an airless intensity many of us will recognise from lockdown. “There’s so much hate in here you can hardly breathe,” says Kurt, who is there to enforce social restrictions, including masks. Hell is other people. Especially, in some cases, the person you’re married to. (Not you, obviously, darling, if you’re reading this…)