The Teatro do Bolhão company is presently assembling an ambitious triptych: its central panel is Lorenzaccio, a play by Alfred de Musset (1834), staged by Rogério de Carvalho. Out of historical records from 16th-century Florentine describing the overthrow of tyrannical duke Alessandro de’ Medici, murdered by his cousin Lorenzo – insultingly nicknamed “Lorenzaccio” for frustrating the insurgents’ desire for change –, Musset creates what is as much a personal drama as a critique of a decadent society. This milestone of French Romantic drama, seen as unperformable or otherwise staged in mutilated versions, has always been seen as a challenge by the company, which now premieres it in Portugal. A show about a human community and its inability to confront the crumbling-down of power and its own ability to dissimulate, Lorenzaccio may also prove to be a portrait of our time.