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Dracula

adapted by Laramie Dean from Bram Stoker

Based on Bram Stoker’s timeless novel, Dracula is a highly theatrical exploration of the evil that lurks inside all of us… and how it can become all-consuming, draining away our humanity and turning us into monsters.

Count Dracula travels from his castle in Transylvania to England with the intent of creating more vampires like himself. But little does he know that one woman may possess enough strength to destroy him forever.

Drama Classical Adaptation

Average Producer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Recommended for High Schools

At a Glance

Running Time
About 100 minutes
Approximate; excludes intermissions and scene changes
Cast
13 Characters
5 M 5 F 3 Any Gender
plus Nosferatu and Assorted Monsters
Set
Simple set
Length
100 pages
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13 Characters

5 M, 5 F, 3 Any Gender, plus Nosferatu and Assorted Monsters
Count Vlad Dracula [M] 127 lines
500-year-old Transylvanian vampire. Drinks blood to maintain his youth and immortality. Having bled dry most of his own homeland, he now seeks to conquer England.
Mina Murray Harker [F] 267 lines
A young Englishwoman engaged to Jonathan Harker; former paramour of Abraham Van Helsing.
Jonathan Harker [M] 177 lines
A young up and coming British solicitor. Engaged to Mina Murray.
Lucy Westenra [F] 131 lines
Mina’s best friend with whom she’s grown up, a young woman skating dangerously close to the edge of sanity.
Abraham Van Helsing [M] 186 lines
A young British doctor, once in love with Mina, was engaged to Lucy. An expert on diseases of the blood and metaphysics, including hypnotism and vampires.
R.M. Renfield [M] 58 lines
Once a solicitor in Harker’s firm, driven mad by Dracula, now his very willing slave. Believes that eating smaller forms of life will grant him immortality.
Bride 1 [F] 16 lines
One of Dracula’s vampire wives, she is the youngest.
Bride 2 [F] 13 lines
Dracula’s middle bride, usually sides with Bride 1.
Bride 3 [F] 20 lines
The eldest and the most powerful of Dracula’s vampiric wives.
Captain of the Demeter [A] 9 lines
Russian captain of the ship taking Dracula from Transylvania to England.
Attendant [A]
Worker at Van Helsing’s asylum.
Butler [M] 5 lines
Works for Lucy.
Warrior [A] 1 line
Powerful Transylvanian in charge of making certain that Dracula reaches his castle safely.
Nosferatu [A]
The Undead.
Assorted Monsters [A]
Vampires, monsters, and werewolves who inhabit the Underworld. They may also act as stagehands, changing furniture between scenes.

Praise for Dracula

5 out of 5 stars
Joan MacLean
Moscrop Secondary
The students brought me this script, and their enthusiasm for horror and vampires drew me in. I underestimated how much rehearsal time we’d need, but the students were incredibly committed because they LOVED the show. They absolutely pulled it off, and the audience loved it too. Tears, laughter, jump scares, and gasps. What more could you ask for?
5 out of 5 stars
Loriann Schmidt
Keizer Homegrown Theatre
This play was so well-written, with a lot of timely focus on the nature of evil and the strength of the women. There was a quite a bit of room for character exploration including motivations, emotions and ethics. Our cast could really sink their teeth into this production and found plenty of opportunities for emotional exploration and physicality. I was very impressed with key lines that really highlighted the presence of evil in all of us, but the human capacity to rise above it. Mina's character is not helpless and calls us all to be better and do better in the face of overwhelming opposition.
4 out of 5 stars
Scott Hasbrouck
George Washington High School
There are so many scripts for Dracula out there. I really wanted to find one with a large cast, strong female characters, and less male characters. Laramie Dean's script did all these things.

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