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GRAND'S ACADEMY THEATRE
GET THEIR TEETH INTO DRACULA
The Grand Theatre Academy's chilling production of
Bram
Stoker's Dracula flies into the Lawrence House Studio on
April 18
The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker is one of the Grand Theatre
Academy's three main productions in the Lawrence House Studio for 2007.
This chillingly beautiful dramatisation of Stoker's famous horror tale
by John Godber and Jane Thornton is the perfect production for the adult
members
of the
Academy (aged 19 to 25).
You will meet not only the Count himself, but heroes Jonathan Harker and
Abraham Van Helsing, plus an array of madmen, psychiatrists and fair
maidens who cross paths
with the
fanged menace.
See the icy, stark and vivid images conjured by Bram Stoker's tale of
the unresting vampire who must feed on the blood of others to survive.
Share the terrifying tale of Jonathan Harker's trip to Transylvania and
his ordeal as a guest of Count Dracula. Return to Britain to find Dr Van
Helsing battling to save his wife's dearest friend - the ravishing Lucy,
from the Count's overwhelming powers. Who is true object of Dracula's
desire? Will evil be vanquished forever?
"I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much
sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no
longer young. And my heart, through heavy years of mourning over the
dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are
broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the
broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow, and
would be alone with my thoughts when I may.....
"Whether man nor beast I could not tell...I could see a white face and
red, gleaming eyes...Somehow his words and his looks did not seem to
accord, or else it was that his cast of face made his look malignant and
saturnine...."
- from Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897
Tickets for Bram Stoker's Dracula at the Lawrence House Studio
from Wednesday 18 to Sunday 22 April at 8pm (3pm
matinee on Saturday 21 April) are priced at £6 and are on sale
now from the Grand Theatre Box Office.
GRAND THEATRE BLACKPOOL
Call 01253 290190
or book online at www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
Release date: 4 April 2007
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