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 LaveryThis is the modern world. Its inhabitants can go anywhere, even toTransylvania. They can communicate globally in the blink of an eye. Buttheir feet, in their modern shoes, walk upon the gravestones of a vastcosmic graveyard. Count Dracula is still alive. He could always comethrough walls, arrive on a moonbeam but, in the modern world, he hasemails, smartphones, webcams and the worldwide web…Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Lisa EvansMary is imprisoned in a present-day psychiatric hospital, convicted ofmurdering her baby daughter. During her incarceration she becomesobsessed 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…
