Good Vs Evil In Dracula

‘Dracula’, by shake& stir is a gothic horror play that explores a story of a vampire and his quest to find true love. The play focuses on themes such as; love, violence, relationships and supernatural creates. Through these themes, the performance generates extreme contrasts on stage such as light vs dark, abandonment vs entrapment and good vs evil. These contrasts manipulated the elements of drama such as space, time, place and movement. All in all this generated meaning around the themes of the play and the hidden meaning in a formerly emotionless vampire’s search for true love. This created the contrasts on stage which created an effective impact on the audience.

Light and dark were used creatively in ‘Dracula’ to create mystery and suspense

An example of when tension of relationships dramatically represented good vs evil was with Mina and Lucy. When Lucy is controlled by Dracula, she is portrayed as the antagonist while Mina is portrayed as the protagonist. This contrast between characters, emphasizes the tension of relationships being effected by the good vs evil mentality the play possesses. The most prominent symbols include; garlic, cross, smoke, lighting and sound. These props symbolised keeping the “evil” away, when these props were not visible, Dracula was often not far away. The symbols also represented the characters trying to keep Dracula away when he wanted to find love. We can then see that he never did find true love, instead, he manipulated people into doing his bidding and believed that was love. The audience often had information about the purpose of these props while the characters did not. This resulted in the audience often knowing more than the characters did thus creating tension of relationships, between the characters and the audience. All of these elements of drama worked together to create good vs bad themes throughout the