For my play review, I saw Dracula by Steven Dietz with the Shakespeare team in Cedar City. Dracula was originally a book written by Bram Stoker in 1897, and later, in 1997, Steven Dietz wrote it as a play. It has never actually run on Broadway, but is still very successful, and Dietz most well-known play. I saw Dracula on October, 1, 2015 at the Randall L. Jones Theatre in Southern Utah University in Cedar City, and was directed by Jesse Berger. I had never seen any kind of Dracula film or play before, so I didn’t know what to expect, but I was very impressed, and I loved it.
I think the main theme of Dracula, was Good vs. Evil. That’s basically what the whole play was about, and there were other themes as well, of course, but the focus is …show more content…
I don’t really know anything about acting, but I think the actors did a wonderful job with it. They all seemed well rehearsed, but also very relaxed, and they fit their characters well. Onto the technical aspect of the play, I’ll start with the set design. I loved the lunatic asylum scenes with Renfield, and also the graveyard scenes, but the walls on either side of the stage made me feel uneasy. I kept thinking they were going to fall over, or one of the actors would trip as they entered through the doorway, and often I was looking at the set and not the actors. I also didn’t much like the backdrop, they used a screen, it had clouds and the moon on it, and I think that looked good, but occasionally red eyes, or a wolf would pop up, and I thought it looked cheesy. The costumes weren’t extraordinary, but they were pretty cool, I liked that the director decided to keep it classic, and in the scenes when the actors had to bleed, the blood stains on the shirts looked cool and realistic, the only thing that really bothered me, were how similar all of the men’s suits were (not Dracula or Renfield). The lights were incredible, and probably my favorite technical part of the play. It was pretty dark throughout the play, with the lights mostly on the actors. They also cast a lot of shadows, for example, in Lucy’s room, and in Renfields asylum, there were shadows of cell
I think the main theme of Dracula, was Good vs. Evil. That’s basically what the whole play was about, and there were other themes as well, of course, but the focus is …show more content…
I don’t really know anything about acting, but I think the actors did a wonderful job with it. They all seemed well rehearsed, but also very relaxed, and they fit their characters well. Onto the technical aspect of the play, I’ll start with the set design. I loved the lunatic asylum scenes with Renfield, and also the graveyard scenes, but the walls on either side of the stage made me feel uneasy. I kept thinking they were going to fall over, or one of the actors would trip as they entered through the doorway, and often I was looking at the set and not the actors. I also didn’t much like the backdrop, they used a screen, it had clouds and the moon on it, and I think that looked good, but occasionally red eyes, or a wolf would pop up, and I thought it looked cheesy. The costumes weren’t extraordinary, but they were pretty cool, I liked that the director decided to keep it classic, and in the scenes when the actors had to bleed, the blood stains on the shirts looked cool and realistic, the only thing that really bothered me, were how similar all of the men’s suits were (not Dracula or Renfield). The lights were incredible, and probably my favorite technical part of the play. It was pretty dark throughout the play, with the lights mostly on the actors. They also cast a lot of shadows, for example, in Lucy’s room, and in Renfields asylum, there were shadows of cell