Blackeyed Theatre's DRACULA Comes to The Stephen Joseph Theatre

Blackeyed Theatre will bring its touring production of Bram Stoker's classic gothic thriller, Dracula, to Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre next month. Performances will run 1-3 May 2025.

The time is 1897. Mankind is on the cusp of vast technological change, scientific mastery and media innovation.  Poised between traditional beliefs, the threat of the unknown and the shock of the new world, an altogether darker fear is emerging. As a new shadow looms large over England, a small group of young men and women, led by Professor Van Helsing, are plunged into an epic struggle for survival.

Stretching from London, through provincial England, to the mountainous wastes of Transylvania, Bram Stoker's timeless story embodies the struggle to break taboos, resist temptation and stop the unknown outside becoming the enemy within. 

This brilliant theatrical treatment of Bram Stoker's adventure blends Victorian gothic with the contemporary, showcasing Blackeyed Theatre's trademark ensemble performance style and featuring a haunting soundscape, powerful performances and innovative design for an exhilarating theatrical experience.

The cast of six comprises Maya-Nika Bewley, David Chafer, Richard Keightley, Pelé Kelland-Beau,Marie Osman and Harry Rundle.

Dracula is adapted and directed by Nick Lane, known to SJT audiences as the writer of the last nine years' Christmas shows, as well as being the co-adaptor of The Comedy of Errors (more or less) and Love's Labour's Lost (more or less). Original music is composed by Tristan Parkes. The creative team also includes Enric Ortuño (movement and intimacy director), Victoria Spearing (set designer), Naomi Gibbs(Costume Designer) and Oliver Welsh (lighting designer).

Nick Lane says: “I'm always excited to work with Blackeyed Theatre, and Dracula is such a cracking work – tense, dense and dripping with menace. I wanted to tell the classic story, but also to try and explore certain elements within it in a slightly different way. When you blend the familiar and the strange, as we did with Jekyll & Hyde and more recently the Sherlock adaptation The Valley of Fear, what you're hoping is that fans of the story – whether in book, film or TV form – feel you've done Bram Stoker justice, while those that are coming with no preconceptions are drawn in by the mystery of who Count Dracula is. And, of course, ultimately you want to give everyone a great night out."

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