The National Theatre of Scotland's new production Dracula: Mina's Reckoning puts women at its heart.
BBC Scotland arts correspondentSince Bram Stoker wrote his 1897 novel about a Transylvanian nobleman who is also a vampire, there have been countless films, plays, books, essays and comic book adaptations.
"We have been noncommittal about the gender of Dracula," said Morna Pearson, the writer of Dracula: Mina's Reckoning. "There is no great statement there. Dracula represents centuries-old evil and that exists outside our society.""People say are you going to play him as a man or a woman and I say, neither. I'm playing Dracula. There's an allure to playing an icon.
When Jonathan comes under the count's spell and begins slipping into vampirism, it is Mina who must rescue him and join the hunt for Dracula in England. An Irish theatre manager, Stoker was a regular visitor to Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire. While staying there on holiday in 1895 he began writing Dracula, taking inspiration for the vampire's home from the nearby Slains Castle.
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