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Tale - not stale - from the crypt.(Entertainment)

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From: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date: 20021020
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Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard

What can you do with "Dracula?" Everybody knows the story. Vampires. Sucking blood. Stake through the heart. Transylvania. Gothic horror.

In fact, Bram Stoker's 1897 novel is so familiar that director Michael Watkins had a problem finding a script that wasn't so full of cliches as to be laughable.

After searching high and low for a new way to tell the tale at Actors Cabaret of Eugene, he finally settled on a standard adaptation by Hamilton Deane and John Balderston.

"I liked this script," Watkins said. "The language was ...

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