Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Bite Me

In the decade or so that vampires have reigned over American pop culture, they’ve been depicted as gay, straight, orgiastic, asexual, polymorphously perverse and virginal à la Twilight. But the ur-text for all this madness — Bram Stoker’s 1897 thriller Dracula — pretty much stuck to standard Victorian imagery of fainting females getting their blood sucked by a studly undead count. That seemed a bit “cliché” to director Jana Beagley of Colchester. Hoping to make audiences see Stoker’s tale in a new way, she penned an adaptation that reverses the characters’ sexes. That means not just Dracula is female, but also Jonathan Harker, the intrepid Professor Von Helsing — even skulking Renfield. Meanwhile, the fellas do the swooning. But will they wear white nightgowns? Find out at the Little City Players' production.