Teentheatre’s new gothic comedy
The Teentheatre group that brought Shakespeare to the Village Theatre last year now brings a gothic comedy, Boys & Ghouls Together, by American playwright David Rogers.
The leading roles in this production include Count Dracula and his wife Letha, their daughter Dirga, the eccentric Granny and their “victims” Buddy Ford and Barbara Ames.
Barbara and Buddy arrive at the Draculas’ “homey hostel” (really a castle of horrors) with a group of American backpackers touring Europe. The Draculas have a hidden motive behind their game of playing hostel hosts...they plan to find a rich American boy to marry their daughter. Buddy (Kieran Levett) is the chosen one, but he is engaged already - to Barbara (Maniana Raunigg). What happens when Buddy finds himself abandoned by the rest of the group, including his fiancee, and alone with Dirga the “innocent” ingenue?
Find out at the Takaka Village Theatre next Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 August, 7.30pm. Door sales only: adults $12, students $7.
Director, Ronnie Short said, “It’s been great fun working with these teens in this well-written gothic comedy. They’ve worked really hard and have crafted some wonderful; and some very real – characters. It isn’t a roll-in-the-aisles laughing kind of a show, the humour is more subtle.”
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