BRAM'S CLASSIC STOKES NOTHING BUT CONFUSION

DRACULA ★★ NOEL COWARD THEATRE UNTIL MAY 30 draculawestend.com

- With STEFAN KYRIAZIS

Cynthia Erivo and writer-director Kip Williams sink their teeth into a one-woman adaptation of Bram Stoker's Gothic horror about naive lawyer Jonathan Harker sorting weird Vlad's house move and writing letters home to fiancée Mina.

Fangtastic stuff?

I was neither thrilled nor chilled. Despite its pretensions, it doesn't raise the “stakes” for the modern stage. No fuddy-duddy, I loved donning headphones for David Tennant's Macbeth. I was blown away by Williams' staggering one-woman Dorian Gray with Sarah Snook - onstage cameras, multiple screens, prerecorded video and all.

Innovative, inspired use of modern media illustrated Oscar Wilde’s skewering of the battle between outer beauty and inner morality, and our terror of mortality.

It achieves nothing here.