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Death is on his way and there is nothing you can do to stop him - unless you can play chess. Ingmar Bergman's iconic film is brought to the stage for the very first time by Everyman, Cardiff's leading amateur theatre company. A world weary knight wakes up on a desolate beach. But he isn't alone - Death has come to claim his soul. The knight proposes a wager, challenging Death to a game of chess - if he wins, he lives. In between moves, the knight travels home to his wife through a plague-stricken land. On the way, he offers protection to a ragtag company of actors, an adulterous wife, a blacksmith and a young woman, who are all unaware that they also have their date with Death...

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