BÁTORIČKA
The Blood Lusts of Erzsébet Báthory

Erzsébet Báthory was history's most prolific female serial killer.

Born into Hungarian nobility in 1560 she became infamous for torturing and murdering hundreds of young girls between 1590 and 1610.

Erzsébet was obsessed with maintaining her youth and beauty and believed that bathing in the fresh blood of virgins would preserve her youthfulness.

She and her domestic servants, her close and loycoven of witches, would lure young peasant girls and later the daughters of the lower nobility to her castles with promises of well paid work where they were subjected to horrific acts of mutilation, beatings and rapes before eventually killing them.

Bátorička - The Blood Lusts of Erzsébet Báthory - is a play in six acts written as an epic poem, that opens nearly two years before her arrest in December 1610.

Count George Thurzó, the Palatine of Hungary, an old friend of her late husband -Ferenc Nádasdy, and later her prosecutor and nemesis, is getting petitioned by some of her victims families in the Tabular Court in Bratislava.

Reluctant at first to pursue the outrageous allegations against a family friend Thurzó in time capitulates and after an order from King Matthias, pursues the case with vigour.

What he, through his investigators, discover are acts of unspeakable horror and debauchery with many, many more victims than anyone could have imagined.

But to bring the powerful and demonic Countess to justice will tax all of his resources, cunning and guile.

Bátorička is an epic poem, written as a play in six acts, that paints the true events in graphic and visceral imagery and highlights what an unhinged and unrestrained human being is capable of, and the tense story of Erzsébet's pursuit and imprisonment is a modern work of art.

Bátorička is a gothic horror masterpiece.