Michael Daviot

'Michael Daviot is a superb actor and this is a tour-de-force.' Fringe Review

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This tells the story of the remarkable life and extraordinary afterlife of Max Schreck, who so hauntingly inhabited the role of Graf Orlok in F W Murnau's masterpiece, 'Nosferatu.'

Schreck died of a heart attack in 1936, shortly before the notorious Berlin Olympics. During a very busy and highly acclaimed theatre career he had participated in overtly anti-Nazi Kabarett performances and, had he not died when he did, he would probably have been driven out as an 'undesirable artist.' 

How did a decent human being survive under the Nazis, and how did he come to be remembered solely for the only horror film he ever made, which should have been destroyed for breaching copyright? 

 

The show had three World Premiere performances in January 2016 as part of the Black Box Festival : 'The performance is frankly electric. Highly captivating from the first scene to the last....' 

LondonTheatre1 ****

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It went on to have a highly acclaimed run at Sweet Venues during the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, receiving two ***** reviews and four ****. It was also shortlisted for the SAC Theatre Award and has been nominated for the Dracula Society's Hamilton Deane Award. 

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