Photo: The cast of Dracula.Top L to R: Dean Jorgenson, Scott Anthony Smith, Robin Jones, John Jurcheck, W. Joseph Cote.  Bottom L to R: Jennifer Hodgson, Paul Hodgson, Andrea Itkin, Jim Reitz, Liz McLeod

Starring  Dean Jorgenson as Dracula, and adapted from the Mercury Radio Theatre and CBC radio adaptations of "Dracula" by PG Hodgson.

Broadcast live on Rockland radio station WRFR, and livestreamed at WRFR.org 

If you think you have heard wolves howling, think again, you’ve heard nothing like this production, which features hundreds and hundreds of sound effects, many of them piled on top of each other for a soundscape of terror and suspense! Come watch and listen to a cast of hundreds perform the greatest horror story ever written (sorry, Stephen). And you can see it on the most terrifying night of the year. It’ll be your treat to yourself.

The Story: The radio version adapted by PG Hodgson is based on the novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. The novel is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. At the opening, solicitor Jonathan Harker is on a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and first plagues the seaside town of Whitby in the North East of England. Dracula recruits other vampires, including Lucy Westenra, the ward of Dr Seward, and coincidentally, friend of Mina Harker, Jonathan’s wife. On Lucy’s “death,” he recruits his colleague from Holland Abraham van Helsing, and this team hunt Dracula to London and back to Transylvania for a final battle between good and evil, on the way freeing Lucy from her undead state.