Fresh blood for classic novel
© Christophe Raynaud de Lage I was delighted to see the Compagnie Plexus Polaire at the 2023 edition of the Festival Off Avignon, a company I had never seen before but which had been on my radar ever since I came across the images of their adaptation of Moby Dick on the internet. The company was at the festival not with Moby Dick , but with Dracula - Lucy's Dream , an adaptation of another classic novel, Bram Stoker's famous Dracula . Performances took place at La Patinoire, which La Manufacture had temporarily converted from a skating rink into a theatre space, from 7 to 24 July, every day except Wednesday at 9.50 am. As the title suggests, the protagonist of the show is the beautiful and sexy Lucy, one of the minor characters in the novel, Count Dracula's first victim in England. Lucy is the friend of Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina and is a sleepwalker. The show begins directly in Lucy's dream, which she has one night while sleepwalking. Lucy sees herself in her...