Nosferatu

From Murnau to Coppola, Bram Stoker’s hero has become an icon of pop culture. Jarzyna directed a stage version of Teorema by Pasolini, and his conception of the famous Vampire certainly carries the mark: he is the Stranger, par excellence, a messenger who has come from a totally different world, one that functions outside the realm of rationality, and Jarzyna brilliantly manages to hint at this on the stage. But unlike the host of Teorema, this Vampire announces nothing, except himself. Jarzyna’s Nosferatu is perhaps less a ghost dragged out of our old trunks full of legends than he is a figure who we still have to confront – the great troublemaker who forces us to face our most unavowed anxieties. If he comes to us it is first of all because we have called upon him. And far from bringing us an answer, he reaches us as the mysterious echo of shapeless pleas that contribute to arouse his existence, and perhaps his thirst for a soul is even greater than his thirst for blood…

créé le 12 novembre 2011 au Théâtre National de Varsovie.
à lire Dracula de Bram Stoker, traduit par Jacques Finné, Pocket, 2011.