Count Dracula, probably the most famous vampire in the history of culture and synonymous with absolute evil, was invented in 1897 by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. To this day, the characters from his novel – Jonathan Harker, who is held prisoner in Dracula’s castle, his wife Mina and her friend Lucy, who has fallen under the vampire’s spell, and the scientist van Helsing – continue to reappear in countless adaptations of Stoker’s Victorian horror story.
Johanna Wehner, renowned for her elaborated composed dramatisations, stages ‘Dracula’ as a study of a society that projects its own monstrosity onto an other and turns to fantasy in order to protect what it sees as its own particular virtues.

WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES ON: 20th and 25th May, 7.30 p.m., Schauspielhaus

A high society party where in the end no one goes home when an invisible boundary suddenly holds all the guests captive in the hosts’ dining room. Confronted by the new reality of their apparent incarceration, the polite manners of elegant society rapidly give way to a mercilessly brutal treatment of each other. This rewriting of the surrealist film classic by Oscar-winning director Luis Buñuel employs savage humour to examine a social class whose extreme privilege renders it thoroughly incapable of any effective action. This is the multi-award winning director Claudia Bauer’s third production for Schauspiel Frankfurt.

WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES ON: 14th April, 6.00 p.m., Schauspielhaus