Overview
When your survival is at stake… will you be able to distinguish the monster from the man? Both terrifying and riotous, Kate Hamill’s imaginative, gender-bending “feminist revenge fantasy” is like no Dracula you’ve ever seen—exploring the nature of predators and reinventing the story as a smart, disquieting, darkly comic drama. Hamill’s signature style and postmodern wit upends this familiar tale of Victorian vampires—driving a stake through the heart of toxic masculinity.
ISBN: 978-1-63852-139-6
Casting & Production
Casting
DOCTOR VAN HELSING — 40s+. American. A female vampire hunter. She takes no crap from anybody. She is badass – and 19th century men do not, as a rule, appreciate it.
MINA HARKER — 20s-30s. Very smart. Caring. Loyal. Wants to do the right thing.
LUCY WESTENRA — 20s-30s. Bright, funny, vivacious, playful, and mischievous.
MARILLA — 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human.
DRUSILLA — 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human.
MERCHANT – A merchant looking to make a sale.
RENFIELD — Any age. A madwoman. Worships Dracula. Believes that if she can earn his approval, she will be free.
DRACULA — Late 30s – late 50s. A physically imposing man. He is…. extremely confident. Strong. Funny. Charming. Sexy. You’d like him, reader – no, really, you would.
JONATHAN HARKER — 20s-40s. A nice man. A truly decent man. A lawyer; a man of letters; a slight man; a slightly fussy man. If being unkind, one could say he’s delicate.
DOCTOR GEORGE SEWARD — 30s – 40s. The head physician of a lunatic asylum.
Reviews
“Delicious… a feminist romp… a powerful argument for the full humanity of women in our culture… The world women inhabit in this loose, rollicking adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel is frightening precisely because it’s not so different from our own…”
—The New York Times
“Marvelous… A timely spin on Stoker for the #MeToo era… crisply wrought… Ms. Hamill has given us a tremendously entertaining DRACULA that has GREAT BIG HIT stamped all over it… she has unlimited talent.”
—Wall Street Journal
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