One-man show of Dracula hits road
James Gaddas is adaptor and sole performer as he brings Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the stage at The Hawth, Crawley, on April 10.
Ask him why he embarked on it, and the answer is simple.
“It was lockdown. It was just literally because I was sitting on my backside but I have actually always enjoyed writing and I thought it was a good time to put something together.
“Why this one? The reason is that it is such a great story and it is the kind of story that people love to see.
“We are all fascinated by Dracula and this was an opportunity. When I went back to the book you could see just how modern it was, written in such a modern way almost like a blog.
“You’ve got diary entries and notes and so on and it just seemed to open itself up to being a one-man show.
“I mused for a long time trying to work out the easiest way to do it, whether it was just me on the stage with the book in my hand and doing passages from it or whatever, but that idea just bored me. I felt I needed a different way into it.
“I was sitting watching the Discovery Channel one afternoon, all these documentaries about people looking for hidden treasure and I just thought that there might be something there.”