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Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors – New York review
19 September 2023 · Time Out New York
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Raven Snook gives the Off-Broadway Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors four stars, enjoying its exuberant transformation of Stoker’s story into a five-performer farce. She highlights the speed of the jokes, quick character changes, camp presentation and James Daly’s sexually confident Count. Arnie Burton and Ellen Harvey are among the performers whose comic work helps sustain the evening. The review treats the show as an affectionate, knowingly absurd entertainment rather than a faithful Gothic adaptation, while acknowledging that it does not consistently reach the heights of its best theatrical predecessors. Its praise provides an instructive contrast with the less enthusiastic response to the later London production: it records how this particular staging made its comic machinery work for a New York audience.
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