Getting Ready for Tonight’s ‘Dracula’ Playreading

The cast of tonight’s Westport Country Playhouse Script in Hand reading of “Dracula” posed during a rehearsal with director Anne Keefe, Playhouse associate artist and curator of the playreading series. “Long before our latest obsession with vampires and zombies, there was Bram Stoker’s terrifying novel,” she said. “This version was done in 1927, and it is by far the least hokey and most scary. What makes it scary is that it in no way begs a laugh. Prepared to be scared.” Pictured (l-r, first row) are Boyd Gaines; Bethany Jillard; Mark Shanahan; Kristin Hahn and Jack Gilpin; (back row) Martha Stout; Aaron Krohn; Ryan Garbayo; Mathew Amendt and Anne Keefe. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com