Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays (Oberon Modern Play...

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain’s leading playwrights.Bram Stoker’s Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern world. Its inhabitants can go anywhere, even toTransylvania. They can communicate globally in the blink of an eye. But their feet, in their modern shoes, walk upon the gravestones of a vast cosmic graveyard. Count Dracula is still alive. He could always come through walls, arrive on a moonbeam but, in the modern world, he has emails, smartphones, webcams and the worldwide web…Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Lisa Evans: Mary is imprisoned in a present-day psychiatric hospital, convicted of murdering her baby daughter. During her incarceration she becomes obsessed with Mary Shelley’s famous novel. The novel comes to lifewithin her imagination, and we are left to question just who the realmonster really is, Mary or Frankenstein himself…

About the Author

A rounded theatre practitioner, Bryony Lavery's skills extend to performer (most notably as Tinkerbell in Peter Pan at the Drill Hall), artistic director (Gay Sweatshop and Female Trouble), writer of children's theatre (including The Dragon Wakes, Madagaskar, and Down Among the Mini Beast) and of many cabarets (including Floorshow with Caryl Churchill for Monstrous Regiment in 1977). From 1989 to 1992 she was Tutor-Lecturer on the M.A. Playwriting Course at Birmingham University. She is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University. 'Lavery is one of the best but most consistently underrated playwrights in the country: her talent is lavish. She is a wonderful technician and always surprising: it is never possible to second-guess her.' – Kate Kellaway, ObserverLisa Evans writes for theatre, radio and television. Her original stage plays include Keep Smiling Through (Theatre by the Lake); Glory Glory (Duke’s Lancaster); The Day the Waters Came (Theatre Centre); Up The Duff (Theatre Royal, York); Once We Were Mothers (New Vic, Stoke); Getting to the Foot of the Mountain (Birmingham Rep) ; Christmas Without Herods (Women’s Theatre Group); Stamping, Shouting and Singing Home (Watford) She has adapted The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; East Lynne; Villette; The Maid of Buttermere; Frankenstein; and Jamaica Inn for the stage. In November 2011 Lisa was awarded the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Play for Children and Young People for The Day the Waters Came. Website: www.lisaevans.co.uk

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