Andrey Burkovskiy and Chulpan Khamatova in the 2026 New York production of Delirium. Photo by Austin Ruffer.

A couple quarrel over a trivial question as violence consumes the streets beyond their home. They cannot stop arguing. This is the cruelly comic predicament at the heart of Eugène Ionesco’s Frenzy for Two, or More, newly adapted as Delirium by director Igor Golyak.

Now playing at Brooklyn’s Space at Irondale through November 14, the production stars Chulpan Khamatova and Andrey Burkovskiy as the unnamed pair. Both actors left Russia amid political upheaval, an experience that gives particular weight to a play about how people behave when the world outside becomes unrecognizable. Golyak, whose production of Our Class drew acclaim in New York, has reunited several members of that creative team, including scenic designer Jan Pappelbaum and composer Anna Drubich.

Ionesco wrote the original play in 1963. More than six decades later, its strange proposition remains intact: a domestic disagreement can carry on even as the foundations of ordinary life disappear. Golyak’s version does not need to identify a particular contemporary war to make the tension apparent.

Delirium continues through Saturday, November 14, at the Space at Irondale, 85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Performance information and tickets are available from the production’s official website.