drac.txt

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Title: Dracula... a variation by Bo List - Chance Theatre
4 gold bats

10 08 07 - This was an interesting and amusing production mixing dark 
humour and visual gags with blind terror and great atmosphere! This 
was achieved in a difficult space at Zoo Southside, essentially a 
chamber with two doors either side of the set. These were put to 
good use with a constant flow of dramatic entrances, exits and dark
laughs if you can imagine Dracula as a US inspired parody! Featuring,
a very well spoken and plausible Renfield not only countering any 
hints of American accents but also darker and more lucid than the 
bug eating film version. With a Doctor who acts inappropriately 
with Mina and Lucy at every opportunity, as well as constant dark 
sexual undertones, the show mixed dark humour and comic relief into
the narrative wonderfully! In this humorous representation of the 
dreams, hopes and ambitions of typical Vampires, Van Helsing emerged
as somewhat of a spoilsport. A well attended show making good use of
a strobe at the essential vampiric feeding moments it contained 
unusual twists and character transformations entirely absent from 
the original. Ending on a female Vampires 'right to choose' and the
word 'f**k' in the best received pronunciation you will have heard
in a while, great fun!

by John Vassallo