Dracula

4th-6th December 2017 | The Art School | Directed by Hanni Shinton

Poster Designed by Harry Penrhyn Jones

While the title suggests differently, Count Dracula is actually pushed to the back of the action of the play. Instead, 'Dracula' shows the effects on the humans he manipulates, from madman Renfield in a padded cell of an asylum to Lucy in the romantic garden of an estate in Whitby, growing paler by the day. Liz Lochhead's stage version of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic text marries Stoker's fantastic imagery with modern questions about the battle between faith and reason, sanity and madness, gender roles and women's sexuality. Examining the relationship of women to the vampire legend, and what this means in terms of women's relationship with men in general is certainly still relevant in 2017. This seductive and haunting version of the well known story is not to be missed.

Interview with the director