Vampires use to mean sexuality, blood-lust, and horror. Let’s get back those roots with the newest adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, hot off it’s 2014 run in New York City! This isn’t your mother’s Dracula. No, in this version, madness, sexuality, and power explode onto the stage. Renfield fights for her sexual freedom, Lucy struggles against her mother’s expectations and her own growing hysteria, and Mina Murray is left standing alone in the wreckage of the 19th century facing the man who offers her both liberation and death.
When revisiting this story, it wasn’t simply the love of the titular vampire, but it was more so the profound fear of female power and sexuality. Dracula was written at a time when the emergence of the New Woman and women’s suffrage was threatening to erode the strictly enforced gender roles of the age. Sadly, in a time and place where these practices are often thought of as antiquated and Victorian, restrictive notions of femininity are still very present in our society. The denial of reproductive rights, the Madonna-whore paradigm, rape culture, the violence inflicted on women in modern media, and the impossible beauty standards and body-shaming we impose on young women; these are all ways our society continues to control female bodies and the opportunities permitted to women. What Dracula does is lay these bear and expose the undying horrors that continue to haunt us.
Ronnie Marmo is proud to produce the New York smash Halloween horror classic, Dracula, which was adapted from Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel by Jayce Johnson, after a highly successful 2014 run in New York City. The Los Angeles production will also be directed by Sophia Watt for the LA Premiere of this adaption.
Opening at Theatre 68 @ NoHo Arts Center on September 25th, 2015 and running through November 1st, 2015.
VENUE:
Theatre 68 @ NoHo Arts Center
11136 Magnolia Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Opening September 25th running through November 1st, 2015
Performances are Friday, Saturday @ 8:00PM and Sunday @ 7:00PM (Preview Sept. 24 – 8PM)
Running time: 90 minutes
General admission $25.00. Tickets are available at: www.plays411.com/dracula
Additional information is available at: www.theatre68.com 323.960.5068
WHO:
Jayce Johnson – Playwright (Adapted from Original Bram Stoker’s Dracula)
Sophia Watt – Director
Ronnie Marmo – Producer
Haunted Ghost – Composer and Sound Design
Danny Cistone – Set Design
Sophia Watt – Costume Design
Paul McGee – Lighting Designer
Emily Juliani – Stage Manager
CAST:
Robert Homer Mollohan “Dracula”
David Caprita “Van Helsing”
Jordan Wall “Jonathan”
Rachel Zink “Mina”
Ariel Hart “Lucy”
Diego Maureira “Arthur”
Kenneth James “Quincey”
Perry Smith “Mrs. Westenra”
Kristin Lerner “Renfield”
Jude Evans “Dr. Seward”
Anna Yosin “Succubi”
Isabel Wagner “Succubi”
Kara Gibson “Succubi”
Caroline Henry “Succubi”
