Second Skin Theatre

Following the New York premiere of Blood Privilege, Second Skin Theatre’s Artistic Director Andy McQuade brings this powerful story of the ‘Bloody Countess’ Elizabeth Bathory to London’s White Rabbit Theatre.

The historical Elizabeth Bathory was orphaned and vulnerable early in life although she rose up to become one of the most formidable women in Europe. She was not left untouched by her struggle to power: Elizabeth is rumoured to have tortured and murdered over 600 women. Her exigent life was one of the inspirations behind the vampire myths.

In Blood Privilege, Fried looks behind the legend to where truth, myth and horror collide, and together with McQuade (Best Theatre Director, Fringe Report 2012) explore the corruption that comes with absolute power and the doom that pursues those who desire it.