The National Theatre has announced its celebrity-filled 2026 season.
There’s a lot of debate over whether ‘live video’ – that is to say, a performance relayed via video feed to a big screen on the stage – counts as theatre, and the answer I will give anybody to this is ‘yes’.
This all accepted, Williams remains a fantastically exciting director whose bold experiments in mainstream video-driven theatre should be applauded, and are thrilling when they do work.
But the Stockwell-born Wicked star was always going to come home at some point, and Dracula offers the chance to show her range: taking on 23 roles in a stage retelling of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel.
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The novel is told through multiple perspectives and formats – letters, diary entries, newspaper reports – so it makes sense that all the selves and stories flower and flow from the small, slight figure of Erivo, as if f…
Anyone experiencing Erivo’s Dracula without preconceptions or comparisons will be sucked in.
This is a more straightforward piece of storytelling than Williams’s 2024 solo version of The Picture of Dorian Gray with Sarah Snook, where camera filters critiqued contemporary obsessions with image.
Still this marks a bravura return to the stage for a performer who’s gone from Stockwell to winning a Tony, Emmy and two Grammys (plus two Oscar nominations) in 15 years.
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The National Theatre has announced its celebrity-filled 2026 season.
Ключевое утверждение, на котором строится подача материала.
ключевое утверждение
There’s a lot of debate over whether ‘live video’ – that is to say, a performance relayed via video feed to a big screen on the stage – counts as theatre, and the answer I will give anybody…
Ключевое утверждение, на котором строится подача материала.
выборочный акцент
But the Stockwell-born Wicked star was always going to come home at some point, and Dracula offers the chance to show her range: taking on 23 roles in a stage retelling of Bram Stoker’s cla…
Возможное выборочное акцентирование отдельных аспектов истории.
Доказательства из источника B
ключевое утверждение
The novel is told through multiple perspectives and formats – letters, diary entries, newspaper reports – so it makes sense that all the selves and stories flower and flow from the small, s…
Ключевое утверждение, на котором строится подача материала.
ключевое утверждение
Anyone experiencing Erivo’s Dracula without preconceptions or comparisons will be sucked in.
Ключевое утверждение, на котором строится подача материала.
оценочная маркировка
Dracula at Noël Coward TheatreDaniel BoudIt starts quietly: she enters the bare, black stage in a singlet, trousers and trainers and lies down.
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Personifications of Irish and American characters are knowingly ridiculous, but Dracula always had a vein of camp.
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But the Stockwell-born Wicked star was always going to come home at some point, and Dracula offers the chance to show her range: taking on 23 roles in a stage retelling of Bram Stoker’s cla…