Dracula

Act One

A man named Renfield sits at a dining table sipping red wine. He describes Bram Stoker and tells the audience that Stoker made him and gave him immortality. Renfield removes the cover on a platter to reveal a live rat, which he lowers into his mouth as attendants run on and haul him away.

Best friends Mina and Lucy sit in Lucy’s room. Mina describes her passion for her fiancé, lawyer Jonathan Harker. Lights come up on Harker as he writes a letter describing his trip to Transylvania to see his client, Count Dracula. A maid announces that Dr. Seward, Lucy’s suitor, has arrived, but Lucy tells her to send him away. She confesses to Mina that she has two other suitors who have proposed to her: Holmwood, a judge, and Morris, a Texan. The next day, Lucy receives Dr. Seward. She tells him that she is sick with a fever, and in a passionate monologue, he tells her that he is the one who is sick, and the only cure is in her heart. He laments that she cannot love him because her heart