AnglistenTheater: "Dracula: A Postmodern Postmortem" (World Premiere)
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The AnglistenTheater's fascinating postmodern reinterpretation of Bram Stoker's classic Dracula
The play, entitled Dracula – A Postmodern Postmortem, was written by a quartet of authors consisting of Elfrun Jaenisch, Lotte Lange, Viktoria Rossi and Signe Sturup-Hackenberg and took the audience into a world that embraced and played with the most gruesome and beautiful elements of vampire pop culture.
The audience was offered a gripping, cross-genre theatre experience that blurred the line between classic literature and postmodern interpretation. The play revived the myth of Dracula in a way that delighted both fans of classic vampire stories and lovers of modern theatre forms alike.
Dracula – a Postmodern Postmortem tells the story of Jonathan Harker, who travels to Transylvania on business to meet the sinister Count Dracula. After Harker initially escapes from Dracula's clutches, Dracula moves to London, where he threatens a number of people, including Harker's fiancée Mina and her friends. Together they fight Dracula and try to kill him in order to save the city from the vampire's evil.
The AnglistenTheater's reinterpretation breaks up this well-known story of good versus evil with countless references to vampiric revenants of recent film and television history. It also poses the question of how well the story of the “Vampire as Dangerous Outsider” has aged, as it is based on the classic patterns of xenophobia and orientalism. These themes are wrapped up in an unforgettable journey into the dark yet fascinating world of Dracula - a production that sheds new light on the classic vampire tale with a fresh, post-modern twist.
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