Hand to Mouth Players announce auditions for Dracula (The Vampire Play)

Dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”

Director Melinda O’Brien

Auditions Saturday, August 8th, 2:00pm

A comic melodrama set in Britain in the 1920's. In Purley, just outside of London, lies Dr. Seward’s sanatorium, in which his daughter Lucy is dying of a mysterious malady. When Van Helsing arrives and uncovers the cause of her illness, he, Seward, and Harker join in a race against time to save Lucy and them all from a powerful terror that rules by night and feeds... on human blood.....

Cast

8 characters, 2 must be men and 2 must be women, the rest are flexible

Dracula - suave, mysterious, European type

Lucy - 20s-30s young woman under the spell of Dracula

Harker - 20s-30s Lucy's fiancé

Maid - Lucy's maid any age

Renfield - lunatic, usually male

Dr. Seward - Lucy's father, runs a hospital/lunatic asylum

Abraham Van Helsing - worldly, very intelligent

Attendant - keeper of the lunatics

Also needed: Stage Manager, production crew

Director Melinda O’Brien has been active on and back stage for many theaters in the area and is a founder of M&M Productions with her actor husband, Michael Muldoon.

Auditions Saturday, August 8th, 2:00pm

at the Trinity-Boscobel United Methodist Church, 275 Church St., Buchanan, NY 10511.

For information email Director Melinda O’Brien at mmlibrarytheatre@hotmail.com or call 914-734-4336.

Performance dates are expected to be between October 22 and November 1, 2009

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.