‘Keep door or risk having your blood sucked’, says a note on a door in the Lyric Hammersmith, which is a little disconcerting for those of us with the red stuff still heaving through our veins. The room beyond though is thankfully free of the Undead, as very lively rehearsals take place for a new production of Dracula.
Written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm – an Olivier Award-winner for Emilia - it promises to deliver a fresh take on Bram Stoker’s tale, one told from the perspective of Mina Harker, one of the few (can’t be a spoiler, it’s been out since 1897) survivors of the Count’s reign of point-teethed terror, from Transylvania to England and back again.
