Padua Franciscan High School is proud to present our fall play for 2025, Dracula, The Vampire Play, with performances set for October 30, as well as November 1 and 2.
Dracula, The Vampire Play is a different script than the original Dracula, but many of the same characters are featured. Along with the famed Dracula himself, a pair of his victims -- Jonathan and Lucy -- join Renfield and Van Helsing in the cast. The overall plot of the play focuses on Van Helsing setting up a plan to capture Dracula.
“Our show weekend is actually Halloween this year, so I was really thinking about atmosphere and mood, and what do we love more than Halloween?” said Elizabeth Malloy ’11, Padua English teacher and Fall Play Director.
Selecting Dracula, The Vampire Play as the fall play is a nod to Padua’s past. The school’s first-ever fall play in 1992 was the original Dracula.
“This was the first play in our current rotation of fall play-spring musical, and this might be the last play in the gym before we’re in a new dedicated space for performing arts,” Malloy said. “There was the ability to do this nice full-circle moment on Halloween weekend with this really moody play and using a fog machine.”
Showtimes:
- Thursday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, November 1, 1:30 p.m.
- Saturday, November 1, 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, November 2, 1:30 p.m.
Tickets:
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Program:
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