Miguel Loureiro directs A Dama das Camélias, willing once again to work on a text that belongs to the “heritage of theatrical art, of its romantic exponent, its endless gallery of ghosts and hauntings”: “How can one practice the stage without going through Shakespeare, Molière, or this  A Dama das Camélias, by Dumas (fils), a late-romantic spell that still awakes in us such fascination, by reestablishing gesture, grimace and the romantic view, with its host of lost people, drug addicts, consumptives, ruined with all their withered grandeur? What is excessive in Marguerite Gautier that still fits us nowadays? The clear enunciation of an unfathomable state of mind? A small philosophical essay on the vertigo of beauty? A hymn to the decadence of love? A theatre eroticized by romantic politeness? The anatomy of a heroine of her century, writing-vehicle for the holy monsters of the nineteen hundreds… how can we approach this legacy that iconically closes an epoch? Will respecting it betray it? What fascinates us in the story of this fall? ”