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October 24th - November 11, 2007  Craig Alan Dailey & Jessica Wilson " I want your fear...For your fear, like a current, rushes through your body. Your fear makes your heart pound; it renders your veins rich and full." Forget the silly costumes and camp-ridden version of this horror classic! As Count Dracula begins to exert his will upon the residents of London, they try to piece together the clues in a valiant attempt to save themselves from a hideous fate. Rich with both humor and horror, the play paints a wickedly theatrical picture of Stoker's famous Vampire.
The Houston Press Dracula Halloween has come and gone, but the best spook fest in the city is still going on at The Texas Repertory Theatre Company. Adapted here by Steven Dietz, Bram Stoker's Dracula makes for some wicked and campy theater. It's full of blood and guts and pretty girls who love to lay bare their soft white throats. Director Steven Fenley has put together a handsome cast, including Kregg Alan Dailey as the seductively grinning Count. Freeman Williams makes a fine Professor Van Helsing, who steps into the story to save the day with a black bag full of vampire-killing paraphernalia. 
A very pretty Crystal O'Brien plays Mina; wearing garlic and gossamer gowns, she's the young woman every man adores. And Jessica Shearer Wilson makes a spunky Lucy Westenra, the girl doomed to vampire love. All the drama happens against Eric Marsh's dappled, dark lighting and Meghan C. Hakes's impressive set, which is filled with flowing drapes. The whole thing runs about a half hour too long, but the production is surprisingly persuasive, coming, as it does, from a relatively new company that resides on the northern edge of town. — LW 
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