Landestheater Linz

Five vampires caught in the self-loathing trap

Nataya Sam, Angela Waidmann, Jakob Kajetan Hofbauer (from left)(Bild: PETRA MOSER)

It has nothing to do with "Twilight - Biss zum Morgengrauen" and nothing to do with Murnau's cult satire "Nosferatu": The play "Die Tonight, Live Forever (Stirb heute, lebe ewig) oder Das Prinzip Nosferatu" sends two women and a man, hunted by late capitalism, into sleeplessness. The Austrian premiere can be seen at the Studiobühne in Linz's Landestheater.

He is a real estate agent. Because the real estate business is not going so well and he feels exploited anyway, he ends up in the catacombs of Paris, the city of the dead. There he has sex with other men - and later contracts Aids.