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DRACULA
Based on Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”
Adapted by Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston
Directed by Stephen Amato
AUDITION DATE: Sunday, August 25 at 12:00pm
PERFORMANCES: October 18-November 3, 2024
REHEARSALS: 2-3 nights per week, plus Sundays beginning in late mid-late August
LOCATION: Almira F. Stephan Memorial Playhouse, 59 West Main Street, Meriden
Click here for READ THE SCRIPT
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
• Please bring a headshot and resume with you to your audition.
• Please prepare the audition side listed with the role you’re interested in. They do not need to be memorized.
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CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
JONATHAN HARKER: (mid to late 20’s, male identifying) Handsome, sincere, with a tendency toward a direct manner, incisive, excitable, and at times passionate. Audition Side: Harker
DR. SEWARD: (30’s-50’s, male identifying) Lucy’s father. An alienist; intelligent. As a specialist he lives in a world of textbooks and patients. Relies on rational and scientific concepts. Not prone to mysticism but because of his professional field secretly fascinated with that which cannot be explained. Not a man of action but sincere and dedicated. Audition Side: Seward
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING: (30’s-50’s, male identifying) Astute, speaks a dozen languages, strong presence, often direct and forceful. He also can display, as with Lucy, a charming, grandfatherly demeanor. He has seen many things difficult to explain that mainstream science rejects. A formidable opponent for Dracula. Possibly a subtle Dutch accent. Audition Side: Van Helsing
RENFIELD: (late 20’s to 50, male identifying) Physically on the slender side. A mentally disturbed patient at the sanatorium. Disheveled, physically and mentally agile, shifts of emotional affect can occur rapidly, biting sense of humor, sometimes creepily disarming, other times vulnerable and frightened, and occasionally lucid. Should be able to move well. Audition Side: Renfield
LUCY: (20’s, female identifying) Attractive, pale, and physically anemic, yet a sense of her natural exuberance for life is still present but subdued. She possesses Intelligence, a pure heart, and a natural quality of grace. As she falls victim to Dracula a more bold, independent, fierce, and sexual demeanor presents itself. Audition Side: Lucy
COUNT DRACULA: (late 30’s to 50’s, male identifying) A man of distinct and potent presence. On the tall side, physically fit and agile. A mixture of charm, sophistication, keen intelligence, wit, sensuality, power, and a subtle quality of underlying danger that men can find unsettling, and women might find enticing. Oh … and he likes to drink blood. Audition Side: Dracula
PLEASE NOTE:
Listed ages are not set in stone, but rather the “playing age” of the character.
Actors seeking the roles of Dr. Seward, Lucy, Harker, Renfield and the maid should be capable of handling English dialect. Actors seeking the roles of Dracula and Van Helsing should be capable of handling a dialect depicting Continental European ethnicity. The character of the attendant Martin Butterworth requires an ability to handle a working-class British cockney dialect.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to EMAIL US.
We are committed to building diversity and inclusion onstage and throughout our organization. Actors of all ethnicities, gender identities, and abilities are highly encouraged to audition.