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...DRACULA...
...PASSION OF DRACULA Adapted by Bob Hall and David Richmond...
Having lost our heroes, we now appear to be losing our villains. Horror mutates into giggly farce. Bloodsucking monsters become, at the worst, no more than kinky. The saga of Count Dracula, a vampire, has at no time lost its fascination. However, it seems to be enjoying an unusual vogue at the moment, with two productions in New York this month, a third soon to come, and movie and television shows in the offing. Whether or not a faddist gothic revival is under way, there is a pervasive skepticism about unrationed faith in rationality and a blind unqualified faith...
Whether or not the Dracula boom is a solid vote for primordial superstition, it is certainly a solid boost for fun and may even contain essential elements of theatricality that have been too long neglected. When, for instance, has a playgoer been dazzled and dominated by a set rather than merely giving it the perfunctory opening-curtain applause? Edward Corey's set for Dracula at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination...
...person of Frank Langella as a demonic force from the nether world, there is also a doomed lyrical romanticism, a nocturne by Chopin, infused into the play. Tall, slender, incomprehensible as magic, garbed in a cape of Stygian splendor, with a face sculptured in alabaster, Langella's Dracula is no flittering bat but the noblest prince of darkness-the fallen Lucifer-as the play makes elliptically clear, whom only the Cross and the stake can bring to his apocalyptic destiny. Langella has always been a spectral, neurasthenic figure onstage with a temperament of icy disdain. For him this...