A Holiday in Rep - What Does That Mean?
What Does ‘In Rep’ Mean?
Rep, short for repertory, means that one company of actors performs multiple plays in the same period of time…
Outwire Podcast | VA Stage’s Dracula cast members talk turning the classic story on its head, and how fun it can be.
We hopped on a Zoom with cast members Anna Sosa and Dan Cimo to dish about how the women take center stage in this production and really stick it to the man–and just how funny that can be.
Virginian Pilot | ‘Dracula, A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really’ sticks it to The Man
Playwright Kate Hamill (well-aided and abetted by director Melissa Mowry) has taken lucrative liberties with Stoker’s “Dracula,” just as she has with other out-of-copyright classics such as Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma.” Besides gender and nationality-switching key characters such as Van Helsing, Hamill has openly attacked paternalism on all fronts. This VSC production features, for example, an “all-female” creative team (with one nonbinary person, as Mowry specifies). In her playbill notes, Mowry calls this production “a labor of love and rage,” the rage directed against the degradation of women by men legally empowered to suck their life’s blood from them.
Domestic Violence Resources
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we are partnering with YWCA of South Hampton Roads, Her Shelter, and Samaritan House to change perceptions and erase the stigma around intimate partner violence.
CoastLive | It's a Classic Tale with a Modern Twist...DRACULA at The Wells
Actress Anna Sosa is joined by Connor Norton from the Virginia Stage Company to share a preview of "Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really," a revisionist take on Bram Stoker's legendary tale.
HR Show | Take a Bite Out of this Victorian Horror Story!
The newest production from Virginia Stage Company to hit the stage at the Wells Theater is coming just in time for Halloween … with a twist! It’s: ‘Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really’. Cast members Darlene Hope and Madeline Calais-King joined HRS with details about the show.
Get a Peek at the Rehearsal Room of DRACULA
These rehearsal photos offer a glimpse into the creative process, where the cast and crew of DRACULA: A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY are hard at work bringing this story to life.
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