Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney Theatre CompanyZahra Newman is remarkable in the director’s last production with the company
Zahra Newman as Mina in Kip Williams’ Dracula. Newman plays a total of 23 characters during the Sydney Theatre Company's production.Zahra Newman as Mina in Kip Williams’ Dracula. Newman plays a total of 23 characters during the Sydney Theatre Company's production.into a kaleidoscopic study of desire, sin, morality and self
And Dracula is the perfect send-off: it’s a clever and playful production that borrows cinematic tropes and camera angles from early horror films, monster flicks and other cult classics to tell the story of the mysterious Count. A few key shots play direct homage to iconic screen vampires, and these aesthetic touches continue throughout the play.
Craig Wilkinson is new to the trilogy’s creative team as video designer, and his approach is refreshingly different from, but in clear conversation with, the two previous works. This makes sense: while both Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde were novels written in third person narrative, and the characters recited those texts as they performed while the cameras built scenes around them, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel.
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