Dracula- A Comedy of Terrors

James Daly has also transferred from the US production to reprise his role as Count Dracula, and he does an incredible job of bringing the role to life. He is a lace and leather adorned, physically stacked, sexually charged vampire with the charisma and charm required to persuade those he wishes to succumb to his sharp teeth. The rest of the cast is made up of incredible British talent; Charlie Stemp in a role that gives him the opportunity to show off his physical comedy and characterisation skills as the bumbling estate agent Jonathan Harker – we’re used to seeing Stemp sing and dance his way across a stage but here there is only comedy and it’s delightful to see this from him. Harker’s fiancée Lucy is played by Safeena Ladha with humour, frustration and a whole lot of attitude. She perfectly complements Stemp in this paring and they work wonderfully together. Lucy’s less desirable sister Mina is played by Sebastien Torkia to perfection, they later also step into the role of Dr Jean Helsing with a dodgy accent and ample bosom brining laugh after laugh. Dianne Pilkington rounds off the cast as the misogynistic father to Lucy and also mental health patient Renfield – Dianne is the hardest working of the supporting cast, purely for the amount of quick changes she completes and she wins the award for the best quick change in the history of theatre in my opinion during one particular scene.