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The queer horror of “Dracula” A lavender-tinted look at Bram Stoker and the seminal novel he wrote years ago. Count. The figure of Dracula has always lived somewhere between the written word, screen projections and our fantasy lives. The count is dead; long live the count.

Dracula is at the Sydney Theatre Company until August 4. Love In: Dracula’s Journey into Homosexual Romance Norms The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker is an unconventional one in nature as it is filled with uncanny events and people.

Again with Draculathe third part of this loose trilogy, he makes spectacular use of live action, live filming and recorded video, all interwoven into exciting spectacles that drive the story forward. About half way through the production, the monologues give way to much more intense visual spectacle.

The main protagonist, in the beginning, is Johnathan Harker, a solicitor who goes to meet Count Dracula in Transylvania to guide him in his arrival to England. Between the live action and the screened action, we see mouths, lips and eyes being continually overlaid.

Dracula has clear homoerotic tendencies and since these tendencies are both sexual and outside the norm (i.e., evil), they must be destroyed.

Journal of Dracula Studies : Dracula was made before Hollywood’s institution of the Hays Code, a code that banned the portrayal of homosexuality (which the Hays Code labeled as “sex perversion”) in films

In this production, Williams extends the capacities of his hybrid staging, making it all much more private, personal and intimate. Media Contact. But the suggestion of the homoerotic does not stop there. It is a world in which it seems like an old world is being replaced by modernity.

Zahra Newman gives an utterly brilliant performance of all 23 characters. Dracula: a virtuosic performance, sexy staging, and a queer rewriting. Assistant Media and PR Adviser. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is subject to a queer reading.

It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. Liv Clayworth.

The Sydney Theatre Company production makes some cheeky references to these screen versions while developing a compelling visual language of its own. This story has not persisted into our cinemas and within our imaginations because we side with Van Helsing and his brotherhood of Christian warriors but because, like the poor doomed Lucy Westenra, we are all half in lust with the vampire.

Distinctions are blurred not only between the living and the dead but between the monster and his victims, and between the desirer and the desired. Study English and Writing at Sydney. Homosexuality is also hinted at in the use of the woman as intermediary and in the homosocial relationships among the members of the Crew of.

As Van Helsing says:. More familiar is F. Dracula has been told on screen for almost as long as the book has been in publication.

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The way the story of the novel is told is firmly wedded to the modern world: diaries are recorded on phonograph and transcribed by typewriters that produce automatic copies; people communicate via telegram as well as in letters; journeys are taken by train and steam ship as well by horse and sail.

It only took 24 years for the count to make his way onto screen. Sydney Theatre Company adapts Bram Stoker's novel. Dracula reflects on an emerging modern world at the turn of the century. This story was first published in The Conversation.

As Van Helsing says: It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. Associate Professor Huw Griffiths is an expert on sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature and culture, with a focus on Shakespearean drama.