Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and its films share a name but few truths. The novel hides darker secrets and stranger truths than ...

And there certainly are in the Blackeyed Theatre production of Dracula, presently showing at the Hippodrome in Darlington.

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I particularly enjoyed David Chafer's switch from the older Dracula's eastern European twang to Professor Van Helsing's throaty Dutch intonation and a small, but effective, cameo as a Yorkshireman ...

In the lead is Noah Wyle who plays Tom Mason, a history professor. But after an alien ... Kelly Overton's Vanessa Van Helsing is a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing. Vanessa awakens from a coma ...

Mina Harker: How did Lucy die? Was she in great pain? Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Yeah, she was in great pain! Then we cut off her head, and drove a stake through her heart, and burned it, and then ...