DRACULA:A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY

October 14, 2022 – November 6, 2022
by Kate Hamill
from the novel by Bram Stoker
Directed by Rebecca Rovezzi
  • Historic Firehouse at the Parks at Walter Reed
DIGITAL PROGRAM

Kate Hamill boldly reimagines Bram Stoker’s classic tale of vampires and finds new monsters just beneath the skin. The gothic tropes of villains who wear evil on their sleeve and damsels in distress are replaced by all-too-human monsters and ferocious women who stab at the heart of the patriarchy itself. A site-specific production, DRACULA will perform in the appropriately haunted disused fire house at The Parks at Historic Walter Reed.

“Trust Rorschach Theatre to immerse us in an unreal world. Inevitably they go all in; it is their fantastical forte. And this time, with Kate Hammill’s feminist adaptation of DRACULA in hand, Rorschach has conjured a wondrous world that becomes before our eyes a window into the real one.”

DC Theatre Arts

FEATURING

Phoenix Cross
Christina Day
Conor Patrick Donahue
Erik Harrison
Bri Houtman
Marissa Liotta
Jessica Ludd
Jolene Mafnas
Ben Topa

Understudies

Maryanne Henderson
Dannielle Hutchinson
Andrew Quilpa
Kaeli Patchen
Daniel Riker

Designers

Set Sarah Markley
Costumes Sydney Moore
Assistant Costume Designer Ashlynne Ludwig
Lighting James Morrison
Assistant Lighting Designer Dean Leong
Sound Kenny Neal
Props Mercedes Blankenship
Video Kylos Brannon

STAFF

Dramaturg Emily Lathrop
Production Manager Adam B. Ferguson
Technical Director Christian Sullivan
Stage Manager Caraline Jeffery
Assistant Stage Manager Jen Katz
Fight Choreographer Casey Kaleba
Intimacy Choreographer Megan Behm
Accent Coach Jen Rabbit Ring
House Manager Kelsey Jenkins
Box Office Manager Michael Kyrioglu

PRODUCERS

Randy Baker
Jenny McConnell Frederick

MEDIA

PRESS

“An experience that’s literally chilling and thrilling…”
Washington City Paper
“A thoroughly entertaining piece of theater… Rorschach Theatre’s DRACULA is just the thing to stir your blood”
DCIst
“Rorschach’s DRACULA delivers the feminist revenge fantasy it promises with a witty, relentless, and bloody satisfying attack on the patriarchy… For years, the Rorschach Theatre Company has been providing some of the most imaginative and enlightening theatre around, and this production is no exception. Go see DRACULA before it vanishes into the night forever.”
MD Theatre Guide