25th November 2025 - 29th November 2025
Nightmare
Darley Abbey Village Hall, Derby
Dracula the Bloody Truth - by Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson. Directed by Lynne Yates and Bill Horsley.
The play is set in 1900. Van Helsing, who hates theatre, has hired some idiots to help him broadcast the true events that happened to him and his friends. True events that Bram Stoker has shamelessly fictionalised. The play is not a spoof version of Dracula. It's a serious, albeit wooden, script within which terrible directorial decisions have been made and which is primed to derail at every turn. The result is a delightfully silly, fast paced and faithful (ish) adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel.