Dracula

By Mac Wellman

Directed by Jack Tamburri

February 16th at 8pm
February 17th and February 18th
at 8 and 11 pm

Mac Wellman's absurdist, psycho-sexual adaptation of Stoker's classic reveals the original's satire of repression while maintaining its unsettling horror through Wellman's singular poetic language. Dracula adds song, direct address, physical comedy, puppetry, and a uniquely layered structure to the traditional melodrama to create a deeply satisfying evening of theater.

Welcome to Count Dracula's Cabaret: dinner and dancing all night long.

DRACULA: I am pure otherness. The ridiculous little sham of human conceit does not involve me. I am pure absence and am immune to the petty anxieties that trouble the shallow waters of humanity. I am clean. I am honest. My dream is vast, empty, stationary, most cunningly articulated, infinitely mutable and transmutable. It was me and my kind who have opened one inch the door of perpetuity, and slipped beyond, leaving behind on the doorstep of your civilization only the pathetic corpse of a dead rat. Nothing, absolutely nothing. For I am pure otherness.

Here's a sampling of Wellman's haunting poetic verse:

VAMPIRETTE 1: Kckcptcktpu, ungld, vigboaou, o, Drkloa.
DRACULA: Tkctt, Bttl Krrk, Mcuaugan.
VAMPIRETTE 2: Qqqst?
DRACULA: Nx krrrrrcafxuoaoau.
Nx grglc.

Click here to see the world of Dracula alive in marvelous splendour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DZ-V8VEWsQ

The original Vampirette