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Dracula

Kip Williams tackles Bram Stoker’s classic
Sydney Theatre Company
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ABR Arts 08 July 2024

Dracula

Kip Williams tackles Bram Stoker’s classic
Sydney Theatre Company
by
ABR Arts 08 July 2024
Zahra Newman as Dracula and camera operator Lucy Parakhina (photograph by Daniel Boud)
Zahra Newman as Dracula and camera operator Lucy Parakhina (photograph by Daniel Boud)

For the past thirty years, breakthroughs in video and sound technology have, for better or worse, seeped into live performance. For better in the case of Kip William’s production of Suddenly Last Summer and Lindy Hume and Dave Bergman’s Winterreise for Musica Viva. For worse with David Livermore/Opera Australia’s ludicrous Anna Bolena and Ivo van Hove’s self-indulgent All About Eve. With Dracula, Williams’s final production as the Sydney Theatre Company’s Artistic Director and his completion of a trilogy of horror, which included his hugely commercially successful The Picture of Dorian Gray and his somewhat less triumphant Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Williams reaches what one hopes is his technical apogee.

Comment (1)

  • My partner and I attended the 19 July performance of Dracula. I had read this review, so was cautiously aware of the innovation and its drawbacks. No need to have been, as we were both thrilled by the production, especially Zahra Newman's performance. Risky, yes; but I admire the courage of everyone involved in taking such risks to produce a different way of experiencing a classic work of literature. Such passion and energy, such skill, shown by all. And what a voice Newman has! I will be looking out for her in future plays.
    Posted by Sue Bond
    06 August 2024

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