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“The Night of Nosferatu,” a Halloween classic, plays at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater through Oct. 31. Boo! |
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I vant your blood
By Melora B. North
Banner Staff
Back at the turn of the last century Bram Stoker penned the horror classic “Dracula,” which is still a popular and terrifying read. Taken with the story, Freidrich Wilhelm Murnau created a silent film in 1922, “Nosferatu,” the first vampire movie ever to be made.
Obviously stolen from the “Dracula” story, Stoker’s widow Florence was steamed and proceded to sue Murnau. She won the case. All films were to be pulled, but not all were. Some stayed in circulation. It is this film that the play “The Night of Nosferatu,” playing on the harbor stage at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, is based.
Jonathan Harker has journeyed to the mysterious and remote Castle Nosferatu where he wanders into Nosferatu’s lair. In the meantime the Count, while reviewing the deed to his new city home, sees a picture of Harker’s wife Mina in a locket. As the story unfolds, we come to see her dark side and her obsession with the vampire Nosferatu, whom she taunts to cross the border between the living and the dead.
Adapted by Stanton Wood and directed by Edward Elefterion, this production is performed by the visiting company Rabbit Hole Ensemble on a simple set with minimal technology, all actors, except Nosferatu, dressed in nondescript clothes, black and tight in the first act, white and loose in the second. Presented in a story theater manner, the actors narrate themselves in this spooky romp that is nightmarish and humorous at the same time.
The production is on the boards Wednesday through Sunday at 7:30 p.m. through Oct. 31. Matinees are on Oct. 20 and 27 at 3:30 p.m.
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Oct 18th, 2007