Dracula Needs BLOOD!

Funded Jan 21, 2016

Dear donors,

Thank you so much for helping my students bring Dracula to life.

I wish you could have been backstage during tech week leading up to the show to see how the students' nervous jitters turned into theater magic as they tested and perfected their special effects. One student was the master of the fog machine; he set it up behind a curtain so that the fog came billowing down over the front of it, he set it up in the middle of a thunderstorm scene so that the lightning projections were reflected in the smoke, and he set it up to create a 1 foot cover across the ground for a dramatic graveyard death scene.

The blood team also set up and tested their effects: a blood transfusion between two characters, bite wounds, knife wounds, and of course the final scene in which Dracula is killed by a wooden stake and blood spurts out of his chest toward the audience. These effects could not have happened without the supplies that you provided.

For the entire week of the show, I could not contain my joy in watching the students take responsibility for carrying out all aspects of the production independent of their teachers. Students acted extremely professionally in their roles as stage crew, tech crew, and actors, and this was in a large part due to the feeling of importance they got from having all of the appropriate props and tools for carrying out their work.

Their transformation into a theater company happened so completely because of your generous donation.

Thank you thank you thank you.”

With gratitude,

Teacher Evelyn