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In a twist of fate, Rä di Martino brings one of Italy’s most famous actors and directors back from the dead. Having passed away in 2002 Carmelo Bene becomes animate once more at the will of a woman, the artist, to perform lines from his archive's notes on a never realised opera, Il Vampiro. The undead performs the undead: the writer performing his Dracula, and his victim. But who is the victim here? In these lines and notes the writers’ sympathies lie clearly with he of the longer teeth:

“The ‘incurable dandy’ vampire is an un/conscious projection of his own victims. No more, no less. The …