Bram Stoker's seminal gothic is brought to life in wicked – sometimes wonderful and sometimes woeful – fashion in this ultimately watchable but confused production.
Focussing first on her performance, Erivo is five-star. Her ability to shift skins from Harker's clipped English lawyer, to the bright eyed Mina, to the doomed but delightful Lucy, was like watching the lead ballet dancer subtly change parts in Swan Lake. The first 20 minutes in particular, where Harker enters Castle Dracula, were an exemplar for how it should be done.
However I must now turn to production.
Upon this screen several of Erivo's characters appear such as Van Helsing and Quincey Morris, delivering pre-recorded lines to each other, sometimes for minutes at a time.
To complicate matters further, major moments such as the graveyard scene are hit by blaring music, split screens and choppy editing to the point it came across more as an emo music video à la Panic! At The Disco than a hefty Victorian text.
It seemed an unfortunate metaphor that as Erivo sometimes climbed across scenery and around the back of the screen, she was literally fighting for centre stage. If only production had got out her way, perhaps using simple voice-over for the other characters instead of constant visuals, the actress would have been allowed to actually shine through the fog.
Sadly like Dracula himself, this production sits stranded in the middle, not dead, not alive, but somewhere in between.
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