Dracula - RTÉ: Recent Episodes
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"Vintage vampires and super creeps...". Hallowe'en highlights from the RTÉ Drama on One team in Ireland.
All Saint's Day/All Witches' Sabbat is the jewel in the Bram Stoker festival crown as we creep into Dead Man's Month. The late P.J. O'Connor's 1960s armchair-plus-antimacassars take on the Transylvanian count in Tinahely romps gorgeously with the grim original, and there's a suitably sepulchral performance by Tom Studley as a prince of darkness.
Vampirella, an erotic take on a neurotic tale by a frisky feminist, drinks from a different chalice than its lethal Victorian predecessor, mixing the wines of bloodlust, thirst, and libido, in a sumptuous skit. With Cathryn Brennan as Vampirella, David Heap as Jonathan Harker, and Aiden Grennell as Count Dracula.
A special Book on One recording of 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker, read by the late Aiden Grennell, in a 1999 production by Séamus Hosey. Re-broadcast in 2012.
The latest new writing in our 'Long Stort short' series comes from Peter Dunne, performed by Margaret McAuliffe. A perfectly macabre fiction of close encounters with the undead. Produced by Kevin Reynolds.