This comedic adaptation of Bram Stoker's vampire legend was our entry for the Kent Full Length Drama Festival.
A new Count has moved into a remote neighbourhood just north of London. The overly friendly sister of the
director of the local mental institution, invites him to dinner at her family's combination home
and "Asylum for the Insane". There, Count Dracula meets Mina, Dr. Seward's beautiful and virtuous
young ward. In the flap of a bat's wing, the evil Count sees Mina not only as a tasty morsel but
also as a potential bride. Dr Arthur Seward cares for his residents, including the bug-eating Renfield,
while agonizing over Mina's mysterious illness which was contracted at the same time Count Dracula
took up residence in a castle neighbouring the asylum.
The other characters – Hennessey & Wesley (attendants at the asylum), Arthur Seward's sister Sybil,
Jonathan Harker (the long-suffering fiancé), Dutch researcher & Vampire Hunter, Heinrich Van Helsing –
gradually realize what is in their midst.
In a break with the traditional story, the doctor's sister frequently breaks the tension with her dotty
pronouncements, inducing laughs as well as shivers. But even Sybil's silly sayings can't erase the
horror when Dracula is ultimately unmasked.