dracula, a feminist revenge fantasy, really
By Kate Hamill
Loosely Based on the novel by Bram Stoker
directed by melissa mowry

october 16 - November 3, 2024

A feast for the eyes and the mind, take a bite out of this Victorian horror story reimagined through the sharp, contemporary humor of Kate Hamill. This story of Dracula is unlike any you’ve ever seen — follow these reinvigorated characters through the dark in this disquieting, yet comedic drama that explores the nature of predators, monsters, and the terrors of everyday life. This re-imagined tale of Bram Stoker's classic reveals new monsters beneath the skin and drives a stake right through the patriarchy.

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Run Time
2 hours and 30 minutes with one 15-minute intermission
Audience Recommendation: 13 and up
Content Advisory: Blood, gore, depictions of sexual, emotional, and physical violence, self-harm, and extremely toxic masculinity.
October 4 | Behind the Curtain Virtual Session
October 16 - 18 | Preview Performances
October 18 at 7:30PM | HR Pride and Young Professionals Night
October 18 at 7:30PM | PaintPink Night for Breast Cancer Relief
October 19 at 6:45PM | Meet the Director
October 19 at 7:30PM | Opening Night Performance
October 20 + 27 @ 2:00PM | Post Show Talkbacks
October 24 at 6PM | Femme Fatale Wine Tasting
October 26 @ 3PM | Audio Description & Open Captioning*
October 26 at 7:30PM | ASL Performance*
October 27 | Staking the Stigma: Combating Domestic Violence Together Panel Discussion
October 27 at 7:30PM | Pay What You Choose
*Seating for Audio Description & Open Captioning is provided in the Orchestra Left. Please use promo code “AccessVA” on checkout for proper booking.
*Seating for ASL is provided in the Orchestra Left side of the House. Please use promo code “ASL” on checkout for proper booking.
Meet the Cast Here
Directed by MELISSA MOWRY
Scenic Designer JO WINIARSKI §
Costume Designer NYROBI MOSS
Lighting Designer KATHY PERKINS §
Sound Designer SARTJE PICKETT §
Movement Director JOZ VAMMER
Production Stage Manager ERIN EDELSTEIN*

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
§ Member of United Scenic Artists, local USA-829 of the IATSEv

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Outwire Podcast | VA Stage’s Dracula cast members talk turning the classic story on its head, and how fun it can be.

We hopped on a Zoom with cast members Anna Sosa and Dan Cimo to dish about how the women take center stage in this production and really stick it to the man–and just how funny that can be.

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Virginian Pilot | ‘Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really’ sticks it to The Man

Playwright Kate Hamill (well-aided and abetted by director Melissa Mowry) has taken lucrative liberties with Stoker’s “Dracula,” just as she has with other out-of-copyright classics such as Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma.” Besides gender and nationality-switching key characters such as Van Helsing, Hamill has openly attacked paternalism on all fronts. This VSC production features, for example, an “all-female” creative team (with one nonbinary person, as Mowry specifies). In her playbill notes, Mowry calls this production “a labor of love and rage,” the rage directed against the degradation of women by men legally empowered to suck their life’s blood from them.

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CoastLive | It's a Classic Tale with a Modern Twist...DRACULA at The Wells

Actress Anna Sosa is joined by Connor Norton from the Virginia Stage Company to share a preview of "Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really," a revisionist take on Bram Stoker's legendary tale.

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