“Dracula” has risen again and will be sucking the life out of people at Pima Community College over the next few weeks.
Nancy Davis Booth directs the play, adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker’s spooky novel.
But, as the release says, “this is not our grandma’s Dracula.”
To refresh your memory, “Dracula” is a Gothic novel penned back in 1897. It centers on Count Dracula, who avoids the day hours because, well, he’s a vampire and the sunlight will destroy him. He also doesn’t like garlic or crucifixes.
Still, he’s stuck in a coffin in Transylvania and he longs to get to England to find some new blood. He gets there, finds it, and causes plenty of chaos in the country.
“Our interpretation is deeply psychological,” says Booth in a press release. “Dracula is a composite of what we all repress, must acknowledge, learn to live with, control or expunge, whether it be sexuality, addiction or trauma. The shame of the truth is what creates and fuels Dracula. He is the projection of our repressions.”
People are also reading…
Yikes.
The production will be in Pima’s intimate Black Box Theatre, bringing the action, and our repressions, that much closer. Run time is 1 hour, 45 minutes, with one intermission.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 20 at Pima Community College Center for the Arts, 2202 W. Anklam.
Tickets are $18 at 206-6986, centerforthearts@pima.edu, or pima.edu/cfa
Contact Kathleen Allen at kallen@tucson.com or 573-4128. On Twitter: @kallenStar
Kathleen Allen
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