New blood: Scotland to stage all-woman and non-binary Dracula play

Set in a psychiatric hospital in Aberdeenshire, new National Theatre production puts Mina Murray at centre of action

The first major staging of Dracula with an all-woman and non-binary cast aims to reclaim and subvert" gothic tropes of fragile and corruptible females by retelling the genre classic through the eyes of Mina Murray.

In Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Murray's fiance, the solicitor Jonathan Harker, clumsily embroils Mina and her friend Lucy in Dracula's bloodlust when he travels to Transylvania to assist the count in a property purchase. However, the new National Theatre of Scotland production puts Mina at the centre of the action.