Act 2 Scene 13 & 14 - Development

Scene 13

Cemetery. The chorus members will go along the the stage to work as gravestones, looking down as a praying angel. Jonathan, Seward and Van Helsing will be  hiding behind the lower steps stage right. They are waiting for Lucy to come out, but before that they discuss the realness of vampires, since Seward cannot believe this to be true. He represents the fight of science and belief in unnatural things, an so he cannot internalize that Lucy could still, in a way, be alive. But as he is just saying how he doesn't believe the myth of vampire is supernatural, he stops mid sentence, because Lucy has emerged behind the audience with two children. The gravestones will rise their faces at this point, marking the arrival of Lucy the vampire. Seward is hexed by Lucy's tempting, but Van Helsing comes between them with a crucifix. Lucy recoils off-stage, leaving the two children two cry. Van Helsing uses them to convince Seward that it is of great importance that they slay Lucy, getting Seward to agree.

Scene 14

At the change of scene, part of the chorus will form a door, like in the beginning of act 1 scene 7, and the rest will go off-stage for the remaining of the scene. We decided to do this, because there is a lot of happening in this scene, and we felt as a group that chorus might just distract from the main action.
   Mina will still be on the steps, soundly asleep, until she hears the call of her dear friend, Renfield. So, she invites him in, only to find out that it Dracula changing his voice as the doors open. He has captured Renfield, who tries to attack Dracula with the last attempt to save Mina, but Dracula is not so easily stopped. With a single hand movement he flies Renfield of the steps, who will be lifted by the chorus member on stage and carried to stage right and laid down on the floor. After this the chorus people will go on the stage to become wolfs, observing. This is also when Florrie enters and Dracula has spokes to her about how he will have her tomorrow, but now it is time for Mina. He then suck at Mina before forcing Mina to suck on his blood from his wrist, continuing t with his speech and slowly turning Mina to his kind. Just as he is finishing, Jonathan runs out on stage with Seward and Van Helsing to stop Dracula, but he has already done his deed, affecting Mina and then running away. The scene continues with the characters talking about Mina's condition and later find out that she is able to see Dracula's where about by being hypnotized. They figure out that Dracula is travelling back to Transylvania and back to his castle. So, the group decideds to follow him and to get rid of him once and for all. Mina insist on coming with them, asking them to blindfold her, so that Dracula cannot see them coming. But first, it is their duty to kill Lucy and the task is given to Seward.