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...very prominent wizard —Jonny Rocket, a patron of another competing team—got them back into the tournament and expected favors for his good deed. Among these favors were a date with Claire, the cleric, and transferring Adam’s character, Owen Renfield, a human swordmage, to fight on his team...
...call it by its rightful name, powerfully reimagines this Victorian myth for the age of AIDS. Dracula (Gary Oldman) is a warrior-wooer impaled on the cross of his love; he must track his obsession until he is released from it. His misery gives him mesmeric mastery. The wretched Renfield (Tom Waits -- terrific) bays to do Dracula's bidding. Flowers wilt at the count's passage, and maidens burn at his touch. A young woman's tears turn to pearls in his hand...
...good thing he does. Peter Hirsch, who plays the batty resident named Renfield, yields the best performance in the play. While his ranting and raving are exaggerated, there is life, even wit, in the violence of his acting. And his eyes glow with pleasure when he describes a feast of flies, spiders and cockroaches...
...RENFIELD might make an interesting case for Abigail van Helsing, the doctor called in by Dr. Seward to solve his sister's mysterious illness. Of course, she immediately realizes that the illness is caused by a vampire...
...these emotionally rich roles, Calvin Levels and Marilyn Rockafellow, under Elinor Renfield's forcefully realistic, behaviorally sensitive direction, are at once strong and subtle. They are so good, in fact, that they point up the superficiality of the out-of-school lives the playwright has concocted for them. They seem to have been plucked out of sociology texts rather than absorbed from life, expanding the play's length without usefully expanding our understanding of its people. Nonetheless, the heart of the play is sound, and its beat is worth listening...