THE Nonentities will be sinking their teeth into their next production of Dracula.

The play, adapted by Scottish playwright Liz Lochhead, will be staged at the Rose Theatre in Kidderminster from Monday to next Saturday.

The compelling adaptation for the stage sticks closely to Bram Stoker's original while grounding the whole story in a believable reality.

The fabled figures of innocent abroad Jonathan Harker, his anxious fiancé Mina Westerman, her sister Lucy, mad Renfield, Van Helsing and Count Dracula himself are brought back from the dead for the play.

The story follows the title character Dracula who has designs on Jonathan Harker’s young heiress wife Mina and her sister Lucy.

Jonathan has to find a way with his friends Arthur Seward and Van Helsing to stop the Count before he unleashes his terror on one and all.

Costumes will be Gothic and Steam Punk-themed as the Nonentities try to keep as faithful to the genre as they can.

Playwright Liz said: “After a sleepless night, my hair was standing on end, what with the mad Renfield in his lunatic asylum eating flies, Lucy's description of her dream of flying with the red-eyed one above the lighthouse at Whitby and Jonathan's dream of the three Vampire Brides' advances upon him and of their being repelled at the last minute by the furious Dracula.

“Still, what really attracted me to the story was rule one for becoming a vampire-victim. First of all you have to invite him in.”

For more information visit rosetheatre.co.uk