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I'm beginning to plan next year's season, and I'm thinking about Dracula for the fall. Does anyone have suggestions for an engaging, tight, high school appropriate stage adaptation of this classic horror story? I need a full length production. Any size cast can be considered.

Thanks in advance. This is a great network of support and advice.

Rich

William McNulty has a good version through Playscripts. We did it about 5-6 years ago and had a really good response

https://www.playscripts.com/play/1512

I'm beginning to plan next year's season, and I'm thinking about Dracula for the fall. Does anyone have suggestions for an engaging, tight, high school appropriate stage adaptation of this classic horror story? I need a full length production. Any size cast can be considered.

Thanks in advance. This is a great network of support and advice.

Rich

I remember liking Steven Dietz's version when I read it years ago. What's great about the novel is that it's all letters and journals and ships logs. What's scary is that you're often put in the position of knowing—or suspecting—more than the characters. The Dietz version keeps much of that conceit, which I thought was fun.

To reiterate, I only read it. I didn't see it.

I just checked: it's nine characters assuming you use two Brides of Dracula. You can apparently use more. 

I'm beginning to plan next year's season, and I'm thinking about Dracula for the fall. Does anyone have suggestions for an engaging, tight, high school appropriate stage adaptation of this classic horror story? I need a full length production. Any size cast can be considered.

Thanks in advance. This is a great network of support and advice.

Rich

I'm beginning to plan next year's season, and I'm thinking about Dracula for the fall. Does anyone have suggestions for an engaging, tight, high school appropriate stage adaptation of this classic horror story? I need a full length production. Any size cast can be considered.

Thanks in advance. This is a great network of support and advice.

Rich

I'm beginning to plan next year's season, and I'm thinking about Dracula for the fall. Does anyone have suggestions for an engaging, tight, high school appropriate stage adaptation of this classic horror story? I need a full length production. Any size cast can be considered.

Thanks in advance. This is a great network of support and advice.

Rich

I'm beginning to plan next year's season, and I'm thinking about Dracula for the fall. Does anyone have suggestions for an engaging, tight, high school appropriate stage adaptation of this classic horror story? I need a full length production. Any size cast can be considered.

Thanks in advance. This is a great network of support and advice.

Rich

I'm beginning to plan next year's season, and I'm thinking about Dracula for the fall. Does anyone have suggestions for an engaging, tight, high school appropriate stage adaptation of this classic horror story? I need a full length production. Any size cast can be considered.

Thanks in advance. This is a great network of support and advice.

Rich

We did the Deitz script this past Fall (over Halloween weekend). It was a good challenge for my actors. Script gets a little wordy from time to time. Had to change the estate mentioned in Act II from "Carfax" to another British estate, for obvious reasons. There is a shorter version online that Deitz wrote for a college, from what I could tell, with all characters female...hmmmm. I cast VanHelsing as a woman and it worked just fine. The script is very episodic, with rapid scene shifts requiring an open or unit set. We had Halloween tie-ins: blood drive, come in costume get a $1 discount, pictures with Dracula on set after the show. Biggest prop challenge was the blood transfusion device. Oh, and I used 5 Vixen dancers.