Time and Place: 1897, London and Transylvania

ACT ONE

Scene 1 (p.9/10) Small table, downstage of curtain. The table is elegantly set, for one. Linen. Waiter enters and fills glass with red wine. Projection of Picture of BRAM STOKER on Curtain. Covered Silver Platter. Inside a brown rat. Rat should move as "still alive". Renfield liftrs the squirming rat by the tail and dangles it about his head, lowering it down into his mouth.

Small Table, size will be determined by moving rat trick, as we need a person underneath to move the rat. In any event, the table will need to be built and on rollers for striking it. It will need to fit through the DSR flying buttress and into the scene painting studio.

Elegant tablecloth, should match or complement the main drape. It needs to be full length to hide Renfield not wearing shoes???

Elegant napkin

White plate, flatwear.

Wine Glass

Red Wine in a bottle poured by Attendant.

Projection of picture of Bram Stoker (who is going to find this?)

Silver platter, covered. Large enough for Dracula's head, end of show.

Large brown Rat, appears to be alive. We need to determine how and who will be responsible for this special effect.

Scene 2 (p.10-14) Lucy's Bedroom. Sunset. A bed and a large window are prominent. Long, thick black drapes frame the window. Lucy must stand on the bed.

Lucy must pull a sheet from the bed and wrap it around her like a cape. Probably threatening … a la Dracula. She whips cape over Mina and pounces on her. They rough house under the sheet, laughing and tickling each other.

Lucy’s Bed. SCENERY. Custom built as it will track on and off stage. Foam rubber the top and fit with bedding.

Built onto the bed will be an end table/s, suitable for placing transfusion machines, etc.

Bed spread to complement the costumes and setting. Probably a dark brocade to keep the light spill from flooding the stage.

Drapes for the Window. Light weight, black velour.

3 small framed pictures of Lucy’s suitors

Lucy Business Notebook.

Bed throw that becomes cape.

Harker in the Carpathian Mountains. On the ground next to him are his valise and briefcase. Trees rustling. Perhaps a swaying gobo of a bare tree limb.

Harker’s valise (Leather) We will need 2 identical.

Rosary with large crucifix (size)

Harker’s briefcase (Leather) We will need 2 identical.

Lights out on Harker as scene continues in

Lucy's Bedroom. Lucy rushes to the window and playfully "clothes" herself in the long black drape. "In the eyes of the MOON…" Lucy and Mima play under the sheet again.

"open the window on your way out". Scene fades out and actors/scenery go away as lights back up on

Harker, same location as before only this time coat is off, paper and drinking wine from a goblet. Trees rustling again.

Small writing table and chair

Wine goblet

Writing box with Papers and Pen inside.

Scene fades and lights up on Lucy's Bed Room.

Scene 3 (p. 14 - 16 ) Lucy's Bedroom. NOON. Not a continuation. Place for Lucy to sit with make-up table looking into a hand mirror. Seward enters.

Small make-up table with fake mirror. SCENERY. Custom built.

Table cloth to match bedspread, floor length.

Lucy’s small hand mirror

Make-up dressing.

Hair brush ?

Seward exits and scene follows him. Isolation on him … an aside as Lucy's Room goes away. At end of his aside Seward rushes into the screams of an asylum and lights to reveal Renfield's cell in the Asylum.

Scene 4 (p.16 -18 ) ?Renfield's cell in the Asylum. Renfield is busily making notations in a crude notebook in his cell. He is chained at the ankle. 3 stools. Sparrow flies around inside a crude birdcage.Renfield eats a fly … probably just imagined.

Crude notebook for Renfield

Writing utensil

Ankle shackles

Crude table with three chairs

Birdcage

Sparrow flying in cage

Large fly for Renfield to eat

On cue the scene shifts to p. 18 as the cell goes away. Crash of thunder and rush of music as lights shift to

Scene 5 (p.18 -19) A silhouette of Dracula, far U., his arms extended, his cape opened, bat-like. We do not see his face. A great burst of smoke -- another crash of thunder/music, and in an instant, the silhouette is gone. In its place is -- Harker, in a shaft of light … he speaks w/ urgency from billowing smoke and forbidding darkness. Sound of bats shrieking, doors slamming.On cue the scene shifts to p.19 as the storm breaks wide open, filling the theatre with sound and fury, as lights shift to

No Props

Scene 6 (p.19) LUCY'S BEDROOM. Night a FULL MOON is outside the window. Lightning illuminates the dark room at random intervals. Lucy and Mina asleep in the bed, as the storm rages. A wolf howls. Lucy sleep walks to the window, throws open the drapes. She touches the window very slightly with her fingers, as though caressing it. Then, she presses her entire body flush against the window. She writhes with pleasure. Wicked crack of thunder wakes Mina. Lucy must be able to jump onto the window sill.

No Props

Lights crossfade to Renfield's Cell

Scene 7 (p.19- 20 ) Renfield's cell in the Asylum. Does not require a setting, only asylum tone. Maybe lighting. Renfield reaches inot his mouth and coughs, producting a sparrow feather. Flash of Thunder/lightning as a shaft of light reveals.

Ankle shackles

Sparrow feather

Scene 8 (p.20-21)?Harker Crash of lightning and lights reveal three isolated spaces.

Scene 9 (p.21) Harker, Lucy's Bedroom, Renfield's cell.

At end, Harker must be overcome by the slithering Vixens. Lucy has hurled Mina back on the bed and jumps back onto the window sill to be silhouetted by a MOON box. Seward rush away from Renfield, who pets the dead Attendant. Then suddenly, ALL LIGHT vanishes but a small shaft, DSL Storm snaps out. All is silent.

Scene 10 (21-22) There is a dim light … Coffin. It shakes a bit. More shaking. Then lid slowly opens. As it does, the lights snap off. Silence.

Coffin #1, DSL on apron and on casters or glides. A stage hand must be inside and shake the box as well as lift the top. SCENERY.

Scene 11 (22-23 )Lights back up on Ships Wheel, weathered, stand along, attached only to a few battered planks. Human skeleton lashed to wheel with rosy. In front is Man (Dracula) with back to audience. We do not see his face. Seward enters. It is nearly dawn.

Ship Wheel is SCENERY.

Human skeleton

lashed to ship wheel with a couple of rosaries.

Scene ends with Sun coming up as Dracula leaves and scene shifts to LUCY’S.

Scene 12 (23-25 ) Lucy’s Bedroom. MORNING. Seward pricks Lucy’s finger and drips blood into a container.

Leather doctor’s bag with:

Small pointed tool

Small glass container

Small jar of ointment

Blood pack for Lucy to conceal and then drip blood into the container.

White wash cloth over Lucy's forehead.

Second white cloth to wrap around Lucy's figure.

Cross fade to …

Scene 13 (26) An Entryway in Lucy’s Home, (flying buttress arch DSR) Lights up on Maid with Dracula with back to audience as Harker. maid faces the audience. We hear Dracula as Harker but do not see his face until the Maid tells him he can enter. He exits as lights cross fade to a Santiarium.

Scene 14 (26-27 ) Santiarium in Hamburg. A simple white chair. Mina and Harker leave as lights cross fade to LUCY’S.

Simple White Chair

Small white cloth (Mina)

Small bag (Mina)

Scene 15 (27 - 29 ) Lucy’s Bedroom. Night with Moon. Drapes are parted allowing the Moonlight to flood into the room. Huge head of a grey wolf rises up into sight from outside the window or a silhouette or projection. Eyes glow red. Lucy closes one side of the drape. As she does the wolf’s eye fade and the head goes away. Lucy closes the other side of the drape which turns into DRACULA. He engulfs her into his arms.

Lucy runs to window to escape. Pushes it open. Dracula points to it and the window slams shut. Lucy pounds against the window.

Dracula bits Lucy. In the distances we see hundreds of pairs of red eyes glowing in the darkness. Then Dracula bits Lucy again as lights snap out.

Head of grey wolf (Silhouette —or- Projection)

Eyes glow red

Hundreds of pairs of red glowing eyes

Lucy screams in darkness. Simultaneously, in the darkness, Renfield screams AS

Scene 16 (29 - 30 ) Lights up on Renfield’s Cell. He is chained as wrists and ankles to the wall or bars of his cell. He screams and struggles.

Perhaps a bench onto which Renfield is shakled.

Chain an ankles and hands

Perhaps a straight jacket.

Scene 17 (30 - ) Single light D. on Van Helsing who is reading a letter with a small valise. Lights expand to reveal Lucy’s Bedroom.

Letter

Small Valise

Scene 18 (30-43 ). Lucy’s Bedroom. Day. Lucy, weak, in bed. Seward sits at her side w/bed stand for glass. Blood transfusion. During the scene Harker walks downstage and an eerie green light beings to shine on his face.

Bedroom chair to match dress table. Stock. See Steve/

Drinking Glass

Scarf (Lucy) COSTUMES

Small bottle of liquid (Van Helsing)

Powder (Van Helsing)

Equipment for drawing blood

Cloth

Alcohol

BLOOD TRANSFUSION KIT

Harker’s Journal wrapped with blue ribbon

Mina's traveling bag

Hunting knife for Harker.

Mina opens the Harker’s Journal as Lights come up simultaneously on a huge door opening.

Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania. (35- 43) He descends a staircase. The room is defined primarily by a few indeterminate objects which are shrouded in black cloth. An ancient, cob-webbed chandelier hangs above, unlit.

Dracula waves hand and candles lights up on chandelier. Dracula throws back one of the black cloths to reveal dinner. Set, elegantly, for one. The covered silver platter is identical to the one used by Renfield in the first scene. 2 Chairs. Blows dust off wine bottle. Dracula throws back another cover to reveal a small bed and end table.

Harker stands by bed. Lights isolate on him as lights come up simultaneously on Lucy and Van Helsing. (37) Harker stands and shaves. Dracula appears behind him. Lucy reads. After Dracula leaves Harker on bed. Lights tight isolation to conceal arms and legs being tied to the bed. Then 2 vixens come out from under bed. They attack Harker. Dracula repells them. Bag with baby. Vixens eat baby inside bag and drip blood on Harker. Dracula removes another black cloth to reveal coffin, identical to the coffin before. Dracula steps into it and the lid slams shut. As it does, all lights snap off except one tight one on Mina. Next to her is a black raven.

Objects shrouded in black cloth: supper table, bed, shaving table, coffin

Ancient cod-webbed chandelier (Candles unlit)

Candles Light at wave of Dracula’s hand

Dinner Table (can be the same one used for Renfield in Scene One.

Dark brocade floor length cloth on table.

Dinner set for One

Plate

Flatware

Napkin

Same covered silver platter used in beginning

??Inside has roasted chicken, veggies, and sliced fruit

1 chair

Dusty wine bottle

Wine glass

Small bed SCENERY

Small table SCENERY (Can be the same as for Lucy Scene 3 but without the table cloth and mirror frame.

Pitcher

Basin of Water

Towel

Straight blade for shaving

Mug of shaving cream

Small hand mirror

Crucifix.

Deed papers with writing instrument from Dracula's clothing.

Bag with Baby inside

Must be eaten by vixens, blood dripping on Harker

Same coffin as before DRL

Black Raven which needs to move or fly.

END OF ACT ONE.

ACT TWO

Scene 1 (44- 48 ) A guest room at the asylum. Comfortably appointed, but obviously concerned with security … bars on window. Bed, window, a small table, and chairs are essential. Black drapes (like Lucy’s) frame window. Van Helsing and Seward festooning room with strings of garlic. Rubbing window, drapes, bed.

Bed in guest room at Asylum

Small round table with table cloth.

2 Chairs. Matching

Black drapes in Window

Strings of Garlic

Large box wrapped with colorful ribbon

With wreath of Garlic

Scene 2 (48-51 ) Renfield’s Cell. Renfield sits in a small, ornate chair made of gold bones, bedecked with jewels. Renfield produces a small curved sword. Cuts Seward on the arm. Blood on arm and on sword. Renfield licks blood off sword.

Small ornate chair made of gold bones, bedecked with jewels

Small curved sword

More blood To be on Seward’s arm and blade of sword

Sunset to

Scene 2 (51 --56 ) A guest room at the asylum. The final cresent of a huge sun is seen outside the window. During this scene the sun will set completely.

Tray with Teapot and teacup

Small hand broom

Seward enters with arm bandaged.

Hand Mirror from end table.

Large crucifix. Different from first one.

Scene 3 (56 -- 57 ) Renfield’s Cell. Chair is gone. Steaming cup of liquid in the cell. Steam pours over the sides of the cup like fog. Cell grows red. (57) Then red lights pulse. Renfield tosses steam from the cup in the air and the fog instantly turns to smoke. Light flicker and out. Smoke clears. Lights back up with Dracula standing there with large rat in his hand. He snaps the rat’s neck. Squeezes rat and blood out into Renfield’s month. Lights flicker again. Smoke. Lights out. Dracula disappears.

Steaming cup of liquid — steam turns into fog — into smoke

Large rat killed by snapping of neck and blood is drained into renfield’s mouth

Lights shift back to Guest room.

Scene 4 (57 -- 59 ) A guest room at the asylum. Night. Moon. Mina prepares for bed. Goes to drapes and closes them like Lucy did in Act I. Door in floor cracks open. Lights come out. Hand comes out of floor. Mina comes to it. The door opens and Mina disappears down into the floor.

Newspaper

As lights shift to Renfield’s Cell.

Scene 5 (59 ) Renfield’s Cell. Cross over.

Scene 6 (59 - 63 ) Lucy’s Tomb. A raised stone sepulchre. Just before dawn. Van Helsing enters with a lantern. Stone slab over the tomb. Tools and then they push the stone to the side. Look down into tomb. Lucy appears in the distance. Sun rises slowly. Seward holds hand mirror up. The Sunrays reflect it directly into Lucy’s eyes. Lucy slumps back down into the tomb. Wooden stake driven into Lucy into the tomb. Her arm comes out. Blood on Van Hesling’s hands

Lantern

Stone slab over Lucy’s tomb

Burlap bag

Bible

Lucy with string of children's shoes around her neck.

Tools to remove stone slab

Small hand mirror

Wooden stake

Hammer to drive stake in

Flat case from Seward's pocket with communion hosts.

More blood

Scene 7 (63 - 64 ) Renfield’s Cell. Renfield coughs wishbone. Snaps it. With broken wishbone, he picks the lock to leg shakles and he runs away as scene shifts.

Large wishbone

Lock on leg shakles

Scene 8 (64 - 76 ) A guest room at the asylum. Day. Mina on bed as a light shaft silhouettes her simultaneously while a shaft of light comes up on Van Helsing. Then, the lights shift back to Guest Room at Night. Moon. Drapes are closed.During prayer circle, hand extends from the drapes and parts them. At end of prayer, hands disappear. Second Blood transfusion. Renfield enters the room through the ceiling or through a panel. Enters with a violin, which plays with an imaginary bow. Door in the floor opens. The coffin lifts out of floor. Renfield is on top of it as it lifts up into the room. Door opens pushing Renfield off and light pours out. Dracula enters from the coffin. Dracula takes the violin. Takes a string from the violin and wraps it around Renfield’s neck. Strangles him but releases him just before death. Then takes and snaps his neck. (bubble plastic).Dracula cuts the transfusion tube. Then he sucks the blood from Mina. Make-up. Dracula opens his shirt and slashes his chest with his finger nails. Bleeds.Van Helsing thrust crucifix in front of Dracula. Instantly, the stage goes dark and the crucifix bursts into flames. Moment of darkness. Lights are restored. Dracula is gone.

Huge crack of thunder. Stage narrows to three shafts of light. D (76)

Papers

Wild rose.

Flat case wioth hosts.

Large crucifix from valice.

Shattered pair of ankle chains.

Violin played with imaginary bow

Coffin to rise out of floor

String taken of violin

Bubble plastic for neck breaking.

Dracula rips rosary from neck.

Second Transfusion (must be able to be cut and blood be sucked out of tube)

Dracula slashes chest with figure nails to produce blood.

Crucifix (must burst into flames)

Scene 9 (76 - 78 ) Three Shafts. Mina and Steward in one. Van Helsing in one. Harker in other. On 77 the Sun becomes apparent and slowly sets. 78 Mina’s light snaps out.

Scene 10 (78 - 83 ) Lights up on Coffin on rocks in front of Castle Door. Steward, Van Helsing and Harker lift lid of coffin as sun is setting. Light pours out of coffin. They place communion hosts in a circle around the coffin. Enhanced by lights. Sun is gone 79. Moonlight fill stage. Vixens appear. Fight and then Dracula goes back into the coffin. Stake driven. Blood spurts out. Or Red vapor rises.

Coffin on rocks

Communion wafers

Box for wafers to come from

Bible

Scarf (mina)

Wild red roses (Van Helsing, Mina)

Pencil (Seward)

Grey ash (Seward)

Another stake

More blood -or- red vapors

CURTAIN CALL. Renfield enters with covered silver platter. Removes top to reveal Dracula’s head.

Covered silver platter again

Reveals Dracula’s head