Dracula Triumphant

Ozstar, I agree that "theatre is not meant to appeal to everyone". However, when people pay up to $60 a ticket at a prestigious venue, they expect quality. That's the critical difference between this disaster and your analogy of "a bad movie at the cinema". Your surprise at people feeling a need to vent their frustration after such an unpleasant expereience is truly disingenuous.

If the cast and crew do read these pages, the criticisms herein will hopefully serve as a tough but necessary lesson for the future. Better to live and learn than to have people pay them lip service and smile through gritted teeth. It's all very easy for you to denounce critics of the show as "unappreciative" but this is a convenient distraction from the genuine & numerous criticisms. The fact that the show was performed in the Theatre Royal is neither here nor there: this does not make it a good show, nor does it mean that people should be any less critical or (heaven forbid) honest.