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Northern Ballet's take on the vampiric legend is a gothic feast
Gothic feast: Dracula [Emma Kauldhar]

HALLOWEEN treats don't get much better than Northern Ballet's revival of 2005's Dracula.

Choreographer and director David Nixon has creatively reinterpreted selected scenes rather than giving a faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel and this largely works in the production's favour, making it a boldly signposted and sumptuous gothic feast.

The amount of black velvet on stage, whether as swirling capes or piles of earth, is enough to dress a small army — Ali Allen's set design, especially the curling metalwork and cobwebs in the cemetery, is a Tim Burton dream brought to life.

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