Dracula (stage version) 9781848420298

Dracula (stage version)

SKU / ISBN:
Author: Stoker, Bram

  • Unit price per 
Tax included. Shipping calculated at checkout.


Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's &lt,em Dracula&lt,/em stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Asked to adapt it by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, she immersed herself in the book. 'After a sleepless night,' she writes in the Introduction, '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 . 'This was before I'd even got to the abducted children or the loving hand of Lucy's fianca staking her through the heart . or that shocking rape like bit where, with Mina's newly wed husband Jonathan asleep in a flushed stupor by her side, Dracula, at her throat, takes his fill of her life's blood . '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.' Liz Lochhead's stage adaptation of &lt,em Dracula&lt,/em was first performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1985. Ideal for schools and drama groups, this &lt,em Dracula&lt,/em is all the more chilling for the respect it shows for Stoker's original nightmare creation. 'Despite remaining faithful to Bram Stoker's original, Lochhead's version grapples with contemporary preoccupations: gender roles, the horrors of the 20th century, the battles between faith and reason, madness and sanity, democracy and aristocracy... an erudite revisiting of a primal myth' —, &lt,em The Stage&lt,/em
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • Publication Date: 14/05/2009
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Subject: Plays
  • Audience: Secondary
  • Curriculum: Australian

We Also Recommend