This! Is! WHITBY!!!!!

[teenybuffalo]

Hey, everybody, I just attended a theatrical adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula at a local college.  Are you jealous?  Don't be.  It was awful.  It was the most hilariously bad production that I've ever walked out of at intermission.  It was partly the fault of the adaptation, which was poorly conceived and poorly told.  There's no need to futz

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[teenybuffalo]

De nada, I don't remember what I said in the e-mail, but it'll all keep till we both have some free time.

I'm still at a loss to explain the actors' approach, but more than one person has drawn comparisons to William Shatner, so yeah. There is definitely a resemblance.

THE HOOK.

[teenybuffalo]

I was torn between wishing you were there to laugh at it too, and being glad you weren't having to sit through that rubbish.

[greenlily]

The speech patterns you're describing are unquestionably those that people use when they are impersonating William Shatner as Captain Kirk.

I can only conclude some reason, the director (or whoever) decided that it would be funny to have the entire cast do Dracula in William Shatner impersonations. This person was clearly very, very, very wrong.

[teenybuffalo]

It was like the bad Captain Kirk impressions I've seen, yes. But worse, and with elements of the stoner and the somnambulist. I find it hard to believe a director could make the choice to get them all to talk the same way, but maybe that's the answer, because it was mystifyingly uniform.