DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS
In the treacherous mountains of Transylvania, a meek English real estate agent takes a harrowing journey to meet a new and mysterious client, who just happens to be the most terrifying and ferocious monster the world has ever known. As famed vampire hunter Jean Van Helsing and company chase Drac from Transylvania to the British countryside to London and back, their antics are guaranteed to increase your pulse and cause bloodcurdling screams—of laughter.
Rehearsals/Important Dates –
Rehearsals start August 28th, and will be Tuesday and Thursday from 6:00pm to 9:00pm, Saturdays 11:00am to 1:00pm
Tech week is October 26th (Sunday, 2:00pm to 5:00pm) to October 29th (all weekdays 6:00pm to 10:00pm)
What to prepare:
(Optional) Comedic monologue that shows range physically and with comedic timing.
Required: Sides are available at Stoner Hall, Suite 104C, or by email request.
Auditionees will be asked to perform in a short improv scene with one other person in attendance.
CASTING BREAKDOWNS- All roles are open ethnicity unless otherwise stated. Dialects stated will be rehearsed with a dialect coach.
DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS Character Breakdown – we are able to cast a company of 7 actors (including 2 understudies).
About Casting and Gender – from the playwrights
“Please note that the play lovingly sends up gender “norms” in the style of some of our comedic heroes like Charles Ludlam and Monty Python, in that all characters can be played by actors of any gender, ethnicity, age or type.”
A Note about Content
Offensive language – Sexual innuendo
Staged Intimacy - Harker and Lucy kiss, “canoodling”, Lucy touches Dracula’s chest and butt, Lucy and Dracula kiss, simulated sex sounds with puppets
Staged Violence/Combat - Simulated blood drinking, Dracula getting staked
• Track 1 – late 20s – 40s, any ethnicity, any gender presentation. Plays the following roles:
JONATHAN HARKER (RP British dialect): man, small in stature, unassuming. Prim and proper and obsessive-compulsive real estate agent, frightened of his own shadow. Engaged to his childhood crush Lucy Westfeldt and enamored of her fearlessness. Once bitten, he loosens up… a lot…and becomes a Tom Jones style rock star in leather pants.
THREE SUITORS: male, Lord Cavendish (Scottish dialect), Lord Windsor (RP British dialect) and Lord Havemercy (Texas Dialect), played simultaneously with the help of a puppet on either side of actor’s head
BOSUN (Irish dialect): man, A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm.
GRAVEDIGGER (cockney dialect): man, A drunk gravedigger with a secret.
• TRACK 2: 30s-50s, any ethnicity, any gender presentation. Plays the following roles:
DR. WESTFELDT (RP British dialect): man, Lucy and Mina’s Father, a misogynist blowhard; self-important and given to proclamations.
RENFIELD (cockney dialect): man, Insane patient of Dr. Westfeldt who lives to serve and loves to eat bugs. In a word, he’s nuts.
CAPTAIN (sea captain dialect): man, The scurvy salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.
• TRACK 3: 20s-40s, any ethnicity, any gender presentation. Plays the following roles:
– LUCY WESTFELDT (RP dialect): woman, Brilliant plucky earth scientist daughter of Dr. Westfeldt, she is full of energy and the spirit of adventure. She’s often underestimated because of her beauty. Engaged to Jonathan, but when Dracula moves to Whitby, she is captivated by his exotic European ways – their shared interests – and his shirtless torso. When her sister is bitten by Dracula, she courageously joins the cause.
– KITTY (cockney dialect): woman, An elderly, dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt’s, she serves as a maid in his house. Think a less intelligent Mrs. Lovett.
– DRIVER (thick Eastern European or Russian dialect): man, A Transylvanian male Uber-driver, part Mel Brooks, part Borat.
• TRACK 4: 20s-50s, any ethnicity, any gender presentation. Plays the following roles:
– MINA WESTFELDT (RP dialect): woman, The oft overlooked Westfeldt daughter. She has always lived in her sister Lucy’s shadow and is quite desperate for attention. Immediately receptive to Dracula’s charms, she falls under his spell, succumbing to his curse.
– JEAN VAN HELSING (German dialect): woman, German Doctor of Rare Infectious Diseases from the University of Schmutz, she is disciplined, scientific, humorless, stern and no-nonsense.
• DRACULA: 20s-50s, any ethnicity, any gender presentation, Commanding European dialect. Hugely sexy, magnetically handsome, rock star presence with a killer body, he is a narcissist whose greatest love is himself – and his leather pants. Bored with women falling all over him, he becomes obsessed with Lucy when he hears of her strength and adventurousness. The less she needs him, the more interested he is. He travels to Whitby to find her and make her his bride for eternity.
Contact
c2NjdGhlYXRyZSB8IGtjdGNzICEgZWR1 to request sides, with any questions, or if you would like to schedule a private audition (please schedule this prior to August 15th).
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