Nosferatu, TR Warszawa and Teatr Narodowy, Barbican
The famous count could not have a more theatrical pedigree if he tried. The great actor-manager Henry Irving " tall, preternaturally thin, with a fixed glare (due, apparently, to extreme myopia) and a grand manner which gave way, said Bernard Shaw, to "glimpses of a latent bestial dangerousness" " was, said everyone at the time, the obvious source of the Transylvanian Undead aristo as he was created on the page in Dr…