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Dracula: From Novel to Stage to Screen
Dracula: From Novel to Stage to Screen
With Dacre Stoker
Friday 24th May, 7:30pm-9:30pm
Museum of Making, Derby
Tickets £10 from derbymuseums.org/event/dracula-from-novel-to-stage-to-screen-with-dacre-stoker
Enjoy this audio-visual survey by Dacre Stoker, international bestselling author and great grandnephew of Bram Stoker author of Dracula.
Tracing the journey of Bram’s gothic masterpiece from dramatic reading to the various early stage and film adaptations of Dracula right up to present day. This 80 min presentation will be sure to education and enlighten fans and scholars alike. At the end of the presentation audience participation is encouraged to help decide which actor, who portrayed Count Dracula, is Derby’s favourite.
Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (Dutton, 2009) the Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula, and Dracul released in October of 2018 by Putnam. Dracul, a prequel to Dracula, was the UK’s # 1 Bestselling Hardcover Novel in Horror and Supernatural in 2018, and a top 5 finalist by the Horror Writers Association for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Dacre is also the co-editor (with Elizabeth Miller) of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years (Robson Press, 2012).
This event is part of Dracula Returns to Derby, an AHRC-funded research project led by the University of Derby in partnership with Derby Museums, Derby Theatre, Bournemouth University and Sheffield Hallam University. A series of public workshops and events connect the city with the world’s most famous vampire.
Suitable for adults, booking essential.
With Dacre Stoker
Friday 24th May, 7:30pm-9:30pm
Museum of Making, Derby
Tickets £10 from derbymuseums.org/event/dracula-from-novel-to-stage-to-screen-with-dacre-stoker
Enjoy this audio-visual survey by Dacre Stoker, international bestselling author and great grandnephew of Bram Stoker author of Dracula.
Tracing the journey of Bram’s gothic masterpiece from dramatic reading to the various early stage and film adaptations of Dracula right up to present day. This 80 min presentation will be sure to education and enlighten fans and scholars alike. At the end of the presentation audience participation is encouraged to help decide which actor, who portrayed Count Dracula, is Derby’s favourite.
Dacre Stoker is the great grand-nephew of Bram Stoker and the international best-selling co-author of Dracula the Un-Dead (Dutton, 2009) the Stoker family endorsed sequel to Dracula, and Dracul released in October of 2018 by Putnam. Dracul, a prequel to Dracula, was the UK’s # 1 Bestselling Hardcover Novel in Horror and Supernatural in 2018, and a top 5 finalist by the Horror Writers Association for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Novel. Dacre is also the co-editor (with Elizabeth Miller) of The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker: The Dublin Years (Robson Press, 2012).
This event is part of Dracula Returns to Derby, an AHRC-funded research project led by the University of Derby in partnership with Derby Museums, Derby Theatre, Bournemouth University and Sheffield Hallam University. A series of public workshops and events connect the city with the world’s most famous vampire.
Suitable for adults, booking essential.
Museum of Making, Silk Mill Lane, Derby, Derbyshire DE1 3AF
Fri 24 May