Friday 8 January 2016

Dracula

Audible's new version of Bram Stoker's Dracula is a multi-voiced recording, each actor taking one of the epistolary narrators. Alan Cumming plays John Seward, while Tim Curry is Van Helsing (and thus has almost no lines; seriously, there's a couple of letters and some telegrams.) The promise 'all-star cast' is B-list at best, but competent. Especially interesting in terms of performance is the varied approaches to the dialogue of other characters. In particular, it is notable that Lucy mimics the accents of her friends, while Mina just reports their words.

Narratively speaking, revisiting Dracula always brings home that it's basically a story of a bunch of stuffy white blokes throwing money at a problem that happens to be a vampire. It's actually a very, very weird story by modern standards.

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