directed by Duncan Moore
30 October – 3 November 2012 (auditions 12 & 13 June 2012)
Auditions at St Bride’s Foundation. See our venues page for address and map.
Count Dracula is one of the world’s most famous literary creations. Bram Stoker’s novel has inspired and spawned many adaptations.
Liz Lochhead, Scotland’s current National Poet, adapted the novel for the stage in 1985. To write her adaptation, she immersed herself in Stoker’s book.
We will be leaving Hammer Horror behind with this production. Bar a couple of major character changes, Lochhead’s adaptation sticks fairly close to Stoker’s novel. Therefore there will be plenty of blood and chills but more importantly we have a great story to tell and great complex characters to be played.
In the introduction to her script Lochhead wrote on reading Stoker’s original:
“After a sleepless night my hair was standing on end, what with the mad Renfield in his lunatic asylum eating flies and playing John the Baptist to his coming master … and with Lucy’s description of her “dream” of flying with the red-eyed one above the lighthouse at Whitby, and Jonathan’s “dream” of the three Vampire Brides’ advances upon him and of their being repelled at the last minute by the furious Dracula.
Still, what really attracted me to the story was Rule One for becoming a vampire-victim – ‘First of all you have to invite him in’”