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.
Casting & Production
Casting
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
6 women, 3 men
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 / as cast: 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human.
DRUSILLA / as cast: 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 / as cast (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
“inventive”
– Ben Brantley, New York Times
“ingenious”
– Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
“dauntless”
– The New Yorker
Playwright Accolades
Playwright of the Year, 2017 – Wall Street Journal
One of the most-produced playwrights in America for 3 seasons running (2017-2020); wrote 2 of the top 10 most-produced plays of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019
ISBN
ISBN: 978-1-63852-139-6
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