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 Life of John Smith – Episode II

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The Life of John Smith is the second episode of the diptych Socrates Must Die. In this episode, Paulo, Pedro, Raquel, Ana and Sócrates (reincarnated as John Smith) wake up from a long sleep in a Natural History Museum. Three members of the Academy wake them up: Aquela (Miguel Moreira), Aquele (Pedro Gil) and Aqueloutro (Maria Leite), who show them the world that emerged from the utopia designed on the first episode: a community defined by the primacy of the soul over the body. Memory, language, fiction, affiliation, difference and alterity are the themes that feed the discussion where they all have to reach a decision on the future of this new world, endangered by an unprecedented threat paying homage to Phaedo by Plato and to science-fiction B movies.