Character Breakdown |
Audition sides for all characters can
be picked up at the Theatre. There's a packet of two or three scenes
or monologues for every character in the play. Copies of the entire script
are also available.
Men
can read for any role they feel is appropriate to their
age and type. Women
can read for Lucy, Mina, or both, and all women should
plan to read the Maid's scene with Dracula.
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| MALES |
| Character |
Age/physical requirements |
Description |
| Jonathan Harker |
20’s to (at most) early 30’s |
Mina’s fiancé, a solicitor |
| Dr. John Seward |
any age from 20’s to (early) 40’s |
Lucy’s suitor, the head of a
lunatic asylum, a researcher |
| Renfield |
any age, probably emaciated-looking, or,
at the very least,
hungry |
“a madman” |
| Abraham Van Helsing |
40’s to 60’s |
a professor |
| Dracula |
late 20’s to 40’s, handsome, fit |
a Count from Transylvania |
| 1st, 2nd Attendents |
18-35 |
will play various ensemble
roles throughout the play;
one might play a male
“Vixen” |
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| FEMALES |
| Mina |
20’s |
Harker’s fiancée |
| Lucy |
20’s to 30 |
Mina’s friend |
| Vixens, Maid, etc. |
young, slender, athletic |
will play various ensemble
roles including Vixens, Maid,
a female Attendant; willing
to appear onstage clad in
little more than diaphanous
night attire and copious
amounts of stage blood |
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NOTES |
Except for Dracula and perhaps Van Helsing,
All characters speak with British dialects – the principals in Standard
or RP British, the Attendants and servants working class
or Cockney.
Van Helsing can speak with almost any European accent.
Dracula need not adopt the now-legendary-and-unfortunately-comic Lugosi “Transylvanian.” He
can sound vaguely Eastern-European, or even mid-Atlantic.
For auditions: Please be familiar with the script, and
be ready to try out your British or other dialect. If you have a short monologue
(1 minute) with a British dialect that would be very helpful to me; if you
don’t have
experience with dialect work don’t be intimidated, just take your
best shot at it! If you are auditioning for Renfield you might consider
preparing one of his speeches from the play. Please have a good idea of
what character or characters you wish to be considered for, and be as familiar as
possible with the script.
Please note that there are not detailed descriptions
of “personalities” above.
I don’t have strong feelings about this beyond what is revealed in
the text, and I am far more interested at this point in how you might see
them than I am in forming any preconceptions of my own.
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