Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Sep 24-30)
Gothic! The undead are stalking Yorkshire. Plus Sylvia Pankhurst, a Scrabble sleuth and John Godber's take on how the climate emergency will play out in Hull.
Is it possible to write about Yorkshire without invoking the Gothic? From the moment The Demeter arrived in Whitby, the county’s fate in the popular imagination was sealed. And even before that we had Cathy and Heathcliffe roaming the moors as undead in Wuthering Heights, and crazed Bertha Mason running her fingers along the wooden panelling to terrify Jane Eyre at Thornfield Hall….
So this week we have the battle of the two Draculas. Dracula: The Untold Story is an imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse co-production and uses advanced digital technology to retell Bram Stoker’s chiller in the style of a graphic novel. Their gruelling 2019 show Heart Of Darkness de-colonised Conrad’s novel in the light of acerbic comments made by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, so I expect something similar will happen here. Sep 25-Oct 9, £14-£32
And over at York Theatre Royal there’s Dracula: The Blood…