Blue Moon Theatre Company
Will casting for their forthcoming production of Dracula, throughout the summer. The roles listed below are the roles that are available. If you are interested in an audition, please submit your CV to dave@bluemoontheatrecompany.com
Character List
Dracula: Suitable for an actor aged between 30 & 40
Van Helsing calls him King-Vampire, although he is probably not the first. His powers include a wide range of abilities, some of which are beyond the powers of the other undead in the play. He can command any animal and control the weather. He can become mist or elemental dust, he has superhuman strength and speed. His gaze is hypnotic, he can transform himself into a bat or a wolf. He has serious limitations, as well, he is relatively powerless between sunrise and sunset. He cannot enter a home unless invited (although his power to hypnotize helps him to bypass this limitation). He cannot advance when faced by a cross, garlic, or a piece of communion wafer, he can only cross running water when it is at its lowest and he must sleep in soil made sacred by the burial of dead from his own family. A long-dead nobleman of Transylvania, he plans to move to
Mina Murray, later Mina Harker: Suitable for actress aged between 20 & 30
Her purity is the foil to Dracula's lustful depravity. In the course of the play, she marries Jonathan Harker, the first of the characters to encounter Dracula. Mina is spiritually strong, pure of heart, and intellectually gifted. She is a blend of the "New Woman" and Victorian restraint. She is also Lucy Westenra's best friend, and, like Lucy, she is chosen by Dracula as a target. She is the focus of the second half of the play, after she is cursed by being forced to drink Dracula's blood. The battle of the play is in part between her purity and Dracula's corrupting evil. Her letters and journal entries constitute a large part of the play. Along with Jonathan and Seward, she is one of the principal recorders of the play's events.
Jonathan Harker: Suitable for an actor aged between 20 & 30
The first character to encounter Dracula. At the start of the play, Jonathan is on a business trip to Transylvania to help Count Dracula to purchase an estate in
Mr Hawkins: Suitable for actor 40+
A solicitor, Jonathan's employer.
Landlady: Suitable for an actress 30+
Owner of the Golden Krone Hotel in Bistritz,
Lucy Westenra: Suitable for an actress between the ages of 20 and 30
Flirtatious, pretty, and good-hearted, Lucy Westenra is Dracula's first important victim in the play. She is Arthur's fiancée and Mina Murray/Harker's best friend. Dracula's attacks take away her strength, making it seem like she has an illness which her friend Dr. Seward cannot diagnose. She eventually dies and becomes a vampire herself. She then terrorizes children, becoming known as the "bloofer lady" in local papers.
Dr. Seward runs the insane asylum near Dracula's new estate. He is one of Lucy Westenra's suitors, but he is rejected in favor of Arthur Holmwood. A supremely rational man whose work among the insane seems at times to have taken its toll on him, he is initially skeptical of Van Helsing's theory. His diary, kept on phonograph and journal and makes up a substantial portion of the play.
The third of Lucy's suitors. A rich Texan adventurer with a big bowie knife, he eventually gives his life in the battle against Dracula. Quincey's speech fluctuates between an overdone approximation of Texan English and Victorian-sounding speech no Texan would be caught dead using. He is a gallant and manly idealization of the American male.
Arthur Holmwood: Suitable for an actor between the ages of 25 and 35
Arthur is the lucky suitor whom Lucy picks to be her husband. He is incredibly wealthy, and his money will make the expedition against Dracula possible. He is good friends with Dr. Seward and Quincey Morris. Arthur receives the title "Lord Godalming" after his father dies, but throughout the play he is usually referred to simply as "Arthur."
The Three Brides of Dracula: Suitable for three actress aged between 20 & 30
Seductive and sinister, these three female undead are in the first and third act of the play. Jonathan finds them terrifying and alluring at the same time, and he narrowly escapes becoming their prey.
Mr Swales: Suitable for an actor 50+
Renfield: Suitable for an actor between the ages of 25 & 35 Please note that this role has now been cast
A patient in Doctor Seward's asylum. He is obsessed with consuming as much life as possible. He eats flies, spiders, and even birds while they are raw and live. Dracula makes Renfield his henchman, but when Renfield betrays the vampire, Dracula kills him.
Attendants who work at Doctor Seward's asylum.
Professor Abraham Van Helsing Suitable for an actor 40+ Please note that this role has now been cast
Van Helsing is one of the greatest scientists of his day. A Dutchman and Dr. Seward's old mentor, his open mind allows him to correctly diagnose Lucy Westenra's affliction. He is knowledgeable in vampire lore, and he becomes obsessed with tracking down Dracula. For a while, he is the only mortal character who knows that a vampire is at work among them. A wise and passionate old man, he understands before anyone else that Dracula is a threat to humanity and must be destroyed. He speaks in quaint, imperfect English. This very important character's journal entries compose a significant part of the play.
Mrs Outhwaite: Suitable for an actress 40+ Please note that this role has now been cast
Caretaker at Carfax abbey.
