Phoenix Players

Setting the Scene

This show is set around an innocent American schoolteacher, Nadia Naive, taking her class on a field trip to Transylvania. There, she meets and falls under the spell of a well known vampire, Dracula.

However, she has fallen in love with a vampire hunting, cross wielding, garlic chomping hero in the shape of Nick Necrophiliac, described as a young English doctor with a mission!

On her travels she meets all sorts of characters, a friendly innkeeper and his wife, Dracula’s Mother and his faithful sidekick Genghis and a good Irish priest.

Will good conquer evil, will Nick get his girl or will Dracula get his dinner?

Scenes

Scenes take place in a classroom, on a big aeroplane, on a stony road, in a cosy inn, in a dark castle, in the countryside, in a dingy dungeon, in the castle crypt and most importantly, in your mind!

The Production team

• Stage Director - David Armitt
• MD & Keyboards - Anthony Calnan
• Piano - Garth Hall
• Drums - Sacha Rangasamy
• Bass - Lesley Hoosen
• Choreography - Katherine Bottomley, Karen Caldecourt & David Armitt
• Stage Manager - Andrew Myers
• Assisted by - Gavin Cross
• Lighting - Roger Taylor / Peter Boon & Dave Clarke
• Set designed and built by - David Armitt / Richard Seagroatt & Charlie Seagroatt
• Sound - Mark Longhurst
• Costumes designed and made by - Tracey Smith, Sue Shimell, Katherine Bottomley, Debbie Featherstone & Karen Lawson
• Properties co-ordinated by - David Armitt & Nick Daman
• Box Office Manageress - Pat Caldecourt
• Front of House Manager - Richard Snook
• Assisted by - Marjorie Snook & Claire Lee
• Poster design & artwork - David Armitt
• Photography - Andy McGarty & Jamesey Ward

The Cast

• Miss Nadia Naive - Karen Caldecourt
• Kelly - Tracey Rose
• Julie - Karen Lawson
• Jodie - Sarah Hake
• Hans - Brian Farley
• Gretel - Katherine Bottomley
• Professor Nick Necrophiliac - Richard Seagroatt
• Father O’Stake - Jamesey Ward
• Count Dracula - Matt Kirk
• Countess Wraith - Tracey Smith
• Genghis – Ed Seagroatt
• Master Landau - Tom Fuller
• Airline Pilot - Ian Caldecourt
• Chorus of Air Stewardesses - Nan Arnott & Sue Hake
• Outpatients of Karloffia Sanitorium - Ian Caldecourt & Nick Daman,
• Brides of Dracula, Zombies - Jeannie Hossell & Doris Porter,
• Welly boot dancers – Debbie Featherstone / Ed Seagroatt / Laura Featherstone / Tom Fuller / Tracey Smith / Emma Weeks