BRIER: I Thought A Problem Shared Was A Problem Halved.

BRIER: I thought a problem shared was a problem halved.

PAUSE.

MELODY: You did not think that.

...is one of my favourite exchanges we've ever improvised.

Vigil: Quarry, Act 3

In which Brier plays both sides; the pull of blood works both ways; and things come to a head at Sherrydown Library.

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COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:

Christopher Starkey as Cameron Jarvis, the Wronged

Helen Stratton as Melody, the Constructed

Strat as Brier, the Monstrous

Vikki as Renko, the Flake

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands

MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst

SOUND DESIGN BY: Helen Stratton

EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

The Lords of the Wing are like if Statler and Waldorf had an assignment due in the morning

I do not have a Write A Coherent Essay brain but today's Dracula just made me feel a little sad about toxic masculinity and the cultural norm that men have to put on a good face in front of other men

Like, we've been watching Arthur mourn, even "I would release Renfield after one coherent conversation" Seward could see he was upset, and even in this tight group of men who are incredibly open about their feelings for the time, he still needed to be alone with a woman to fully break down and receive comfort, and I just feel SAD, you know? Like, it's not fair to women and it's not fair to men, and people are STILL doing this, and I want more for them.

There's a lot to say about how Stoker writes women and probably a woman written by a woman wouldn't be necessarily so blithely accepting of this dynamic as Mina, but looking at how Stoker writes MEN, I just get this feeling of him as someone with A Lot Of Emotions who thinks about them a lot but doesn't have the gender theory to realize that the patriarchy might be the problem.

Wait, so Squak disguises all his letters as responses to book recommendations. ie thanking the person he's writing to for recommending a book to him. And the book in question is always The Green Hunter by Airry Pearry. Which Squak wrote. So he's making out that other people are recommending his own book to him, and that he's writing to thank them - but also sometimes responding with absolutely scathing reviews of it? What a marvellous mess.

The Dracula Daily Scooby Gang's great virtues are love and friendship and thorough record-keeping, and their fatal flaw it turns out is toxic masculinity

I have literally been waiting since may to say this and the day has finally come

Jonathan breezed past Dracula reading the train schedule like a novel back in the castle because his wife ALSO is obsessed with trains