Springline Radio Players

Our audio play is based on “Dracula”, a novel by Bram Stoker and published in 1897. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. There is widespread disagreement on who the character of Dracula was based on, although Stoker's notes mention that he found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant “devil” in Romanian.