Before Twilight and True Bloodstream, only one vampire commanded “the children of the night time.” Within this blood-thirsty story of unholy terror, Count Dracula slips into Victorian London using a cargo of his native Transylvanian garden soil – so he can rest between victims. The city appears helpless against his frightful power, and only 1 man, Dr. Truck Helsing, can stop the carnage. But to do this, he must reveal the vampire’s lair and pierce his center having a wooden stake.

Program notice from Rosalind Ayres, about Dracula director of the live performance by L.A. Theater Functions: “For decades man has dreamed of a existence beyond death. Chinese Emperors had been buried with clay armies to safeguard them in the next world. Egyptian Pharaohs were entombed with all the current belongings they might want in the afterlife. But how might it become possible to cheat death itself? Well, try the myth of the Vampire. Person who, by constantly drinking the ‘existence force,’ the blood of others, could assure eternal survival.

In Charles Morey’s dramatization of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, the creed from the Vampire as well as the Christian belief in ‘life everlasting’ is juxtaposed. It is the eternal struggle between great and wicked. Plus, the self-confidence of scientific beliefs and theory, marred only by that uncomfortable shaft of inexplicable fear when something will go ‘Bump’ in the night time. Enter Dracula…”

An L.A. Theater Works full-cast performance featuring:

David Selby as Abraham Truck Helsing

John Glover as Renfield

Simon Templeman as Count Dracula

Matthew Wolf as Arthur Holmwood

Moira Quirk seeing that Lucy Westenra

Lisa O’hare as Mina Murray Harker

Nick Toren while Dr. John Seward

Karl Miller mainly because Jonathan Harker

André Sogliuzzo mainly because Maxwell and others

Sheelagh Cullen simply because Mrs. Westenra and others

Denise Carole as Tart and others

Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded before a live viewers in the Skirball Cultural Middle, Los Angeles.