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Dracula: The Untold Story

An imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse co-production

In Autumn 2021, DRACULA: THE UNTOLD STORY opened at co-producers Leeds Playhouse, before touring UK venues and performing overseas in Switzerland. A version of the production was also specially recorded on location in the Courtyard Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, by the extraordinarily inventive filmmakers Sodium Films.

DRACULA: THE UNTOLD STORY / Filmed by Sodium Films / AGE GUIDANCE: 14+ / RUNNING TIME: 93mins

New Year’s Eve, 1965, London, England.

Just before midnight, as revellers celebrate the beginning of another year, a young woman enters Marylebone Police Station and confesses to a brutal murder.  

She claims to be Mina Harker, the last living survivor of the intrepid group that witnessed Count Dracula’s destruction 70 years before. But Mina Harker has not been seen since 1901.  And if she was alive, she would be ninety years old.

Unfolding on stage as a live graphic novel, Dracula: The Untold Story is a chilling new version of the classic gothic vampire tale that you thought you knew so well.

EXTRAS

Sodium also helped us create a number of bonus features for Dracula: the Untold Story that we like to call Extra Bites. These include three fictional featurettes and a behind-the-scenes documentary (see below).

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Credits

  • Written and directed by Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks
  • Projection and Video Designs by Simon Wainwright
  • Design by Laura Hopkins
  • Lighting Design by Andrew Crofts
  • Original music composed by James Hamilton
  • Models and Animation by Matthew Tully
  • Rory Howson – Sound Designer & Operator
  • Denise Body – Stage Manager
  • David Callanan – Associate Video Designer
  • Richard Herrick - Production Manager
  • Steve Jackson – Video Engineer
  • Alan Cox – Video Systems Advisor
  • Duncan Clarke PR – Tour PR Manager
  • Ed Waring – Production Photographer
  • Henrietta Duckworth – Tour Consultant
  • Sodium Films (Phil Barber, Tom Box, Denmarc Creary, Oli Jameson) – Production Filming
  • Kirsty Blades - Wardrobe Supervisor
  • Tricia Coleman - Producing Support
  • Hannah Shreeves - Captions
  • Simon Fletcher - Sound Programming & Operations Technician
  • Nicole Raymond (NikNak) - Trainee Sound Designer
  • Leeds Playhouse - Scenic Workshops Set Construction & Scenic Art
  • Julie Brown Executive Director ITD
  • Laurence Young – Learning & Access Officer, ITD
  • Morven Macbeth - Associate Practitioner & Company Producer, ITD

Cast

  • Riana Duce
  • Matt Prendergast
  • Adela Rajnović