You'd be a sucker to miss Dracula by the New Apollo

New Apollo promised that 2016 would be a year of comedy for Portsmouth's only professional theatre troupe.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Oct 2016, 06:42 BST
Updated 25th Oct 2016, 18:57 BST
Dracula New Apollo. Picture by Nigel KennyDracula New Apollo. Picture by Nigel Kenny
Dracula New Apollo. Picture by Nigel Kenny

Following A Postcard From The Pier, they have decided to make a change from their usual Halloween horror double bill and go for one longer play, based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Bats are swooping, beasts howling, thunder is raging round Doctor Seward’s sanitorium for the insane and Wilhelmina is suffering a baffling illness.

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Meanwhile, at the dark and looming castle, a foreigner has moved in. Is he a count? A Transylvanian student of folklore, as he claims? Doctor Helga says he is charming... fascinating even. Is the count the only Transylvanian in the village?

Were four gruesome murders of innocent maidens the work of asylum inmate Renfield,a savage beast, or something evil that roams the night? Are Wilhelmina and Helga in grave danger? Does the answer lie in the crypt? If there is such a thing as a Vampire, can Mrs Jameson find enough garlic and batsfart to keep it at bay?

Packed with comedy and cunning stunts, you’d be a sucker to miss Dracula.

The Ashcroft, Fareham

Thursday, October 27

The Square Tower, Old Portsmouth

October 28-29

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