
International Theatre Database
DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS
Category
Play
Country
United Kingdom
Run Dates
Mar 8 - May 3, 2025
Run Time
90 minutes
2025.03.08 ~ 2025.05.03
Menier Chocolate Factory
DRACULA, A COMEDY OF TERRORS gives Bram Stoker’s horror classic a comic makeover in this lightning-fast gender-bending reimagining that features a Gen Z pansexual Count Dracula in the midst of an existential crisis. With a cast of five switching costumes and roles at the drop of a hat, this 90-minute freewheeling send-up plays with sexuality and gender norms in the spirit of RuPaul, Monty Python and Mel Brooks – and celebrates goth, camp, and the magic of live theatre itself. In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker, a meek English estate agent, takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who happens to be the most terrifying(ly narcissistic) monster the world has ever known: Count Dracula! When the Count sets his sights on Harker’s fiancé, the brilliant young earth scientist Lucy Westfeldt, he meets his match for the first time – as well as a slew of other colorful characters including vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing, insect connoisseur Renfield and behavioral psychiatrist Wallace Westfeldt, whose British country estate doubles as a free-range mental asylum. Presented in association with Drew & Dane Productions.
Gordon Greenberg
Playwright/Author, Director
Steve Rosen
Playwright/Author
Victoria Deiorio
Composer, Sound Designer
Tijana Bjelajac
Set Designer
Ben Cracknell
Lighting Designer
Tristan Raines
Costume Designer
Yvonne Gilbert
Sound Designer
Betty Marini
Makeup Designer, Hair&Wig Designer
James Daly
Cast(Dracula)
Safeena Ladha
Cast(Lucy Westfeldt, Others)
Dianne Pilkington
Cast(Dr Westfeldt, Others)
Charlie Stemp
Cast(Jonathan Harker, Others)
Sebastien Torkia
Cast(Mina Westfeldt, Van Helsing, Others)