Millstone Community Theatre presents Nosferatu

Oct. 6—Millstone Community Theatre Guild proudly presents Nosferatu, The Legend of Dracula. No modern-day drama can equal the chill factor than that of Dracula and his nosferatu, the undead who must feed on the blood of the living to exist. Their lust, shown only in the darkest hours, haunts even the bravest of us mortal souls.

The play will be performed October 10, 11 and 12, 7 p.m. each evening, at the Laurel County Fairgrounds. Admission is $10.

This adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, directed by Skyler Jones, a Millstone board member, is done by frightmeister L. Don Swartz. The adaptation encompasses Dracula's horror from his centuries-old castle in Europe, to the ship he travels on, and finally to his new feeding grounds near an English asylum.

When Dracula causes the death of a young woman named Lucy, her fiancé Holmwood, her friend Mina, Mina's husband Johnathan Harker, Dr. Seward and others must destroy her body, and more importantly, the Count's as well.

The hunters are led by Dr. Van Helsing in a daring character departure portrayed by a woman. Another departure is a tight, sharp ending focusing on Mina and her role in the vampire's destruction. Rather than a love story which asks us to sympathize with the Count, a 20th century invention, this version remains true to Stoker's thematic core, the power of good over evil.