Socrates Must Die features two episodes: The Death of Socrates and The Life of John Smith. The dyptich, starring by Albano Jerónimo, continues the director’s work on theatre and politics. The play takes us all the way from Socrates’ three last days in prison, as he awaits his execution, to a future new planet inhabited by an elite of reincarnated souls.

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The Death of Socrates – Episode I

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Starting from Plato’s Phaedo, The Death of Socrates brings together the reinvented character of Socrates (Albano Jerónimo), and his trusted friends, Paulo (Paulo Pinto), Pedro (Pedro Lacerda), Raquel (Maria Leite) and Ana (Ana Bustorff). A Morte de Sócrates narrates Socrates' last three days in prison where he was kept for a month, during the city’s festivities, which forbade any capital punishment to be carried out. Socrates’ friends try to persuade him not to die, showing him ways to run away. Nevertheless, he stays true to his conviction that death is preferable to life, the body being a hinderance to attain pure knowledge. However, after some rhetoric Paulo, Pedro, Raquel and Ana admit that they are themselves persuaded that dying is the best solution, presenting Sócrates with the utopia of a free world and a plan to reach it: to create a terrorist group and an Academy that preserves it throughout the times.