The play is the result of a collaboration with five other theatres -- the National Theatre of Czech Republic from Prague, the National Theatre of Greece from Athens, the Habima National Theatre of Israel from Tel Aviv, Teatro Garibaldi from Palermo and the Schauspielhaus Graz ? in a two-year project to create plays on the issue of migration. The results are being shown in Graz on January 26-29.
The festival organisers describe the play by the film director Róbert Lakatos, as a ?game of deception between the documentary and the fictional?.
?The story of the play is fictional, but has its origin in the socio-cultural reality of the country: A financially marginalized family is desperately waiting for money from their daughter, who lives in Italy as a guest-worker. She is already dead when her family decides to invest in a business that features Dracula for tourists.?
?Draculator tackles the myth of Bram Stoker's Dracula that actually originated in the western world, but was invented as a Romanian character and thus become the country's trademark. How do Romanians deal with this imposed myth? The play speaks in a grotesque, even tragic way about the defencelessness of simple people facing the corruption present in politics and business. The main characters, real people from real life, appear in the video inserts. They step out and transformate into real actors on stage ? and the other way round.?
