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”

About the Author

Taylor Winters dresses up as his childhood nightmares. He’s become Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and even Leatherface. He also owns an extensive collection of Haunted Mansion memorabilia, skulls, severed body parts, and even a replica of his own head. Taylor received his PhD in Bioengineering from UCSD and now resides in Tustin, CA, where he works on fixing human hearts. But in his spare time, he’s working on starting the great zombie apocalypse.