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Given that everyone within flying distance of Transylvania is now familiar with at least the basic outline of the legendary Dracula tale, any reinterpretation of this horror classic could only succeed by either following along in the campy B-movie tradition and playing it up for humor value, or by employing the freakish in a fresh attempt to scare a jaded audience...
...Eliot House production of Dracula is so cliche-ridden one might almost believe it to be intentionally ridiculous, were it not for the earnest seriousness of the actors. This version of the Dracula story only loosely follows the events chronicled in the Bram Stoker novel. Rather, it is a hodgepodge of every vampire tale and succeeds at none...
Yoseph Choi embodies Count Dracula, with his gaunt pale face and glittering eyes. Gus Gardner is also particularly convincing as the suspicious Professor Van Helsing, called upon by Dr. Seward to examine his "anemic" daughter Mina. Gardner's Van Helsing lacks the grisly humor of some incarnations, yet he makes up for this in the sharp intentness he brings to his confrontations with his Transylvanian neighbor...
Most of the blame for this production ultimately lies with director Bill Tomlinson. Why he attempted to do a rendition of a Dracula this hackneyed will remain a mystery, especially when a campy approach still lay open to him. Even had the Royal Shakespeare Company made a serious attempt to perform this script, the result could be nothing less than hysterical...
...Dracula. The Eliot House Drama Society presents the tale of a beautiful young woman who becomes the battleground between an infamous vampire and three men determined to save her life and soul. Eliot House Library, 8 p.m. $5; $4 for Eliot residents...