Scripts for Kids Drama Plays

Halloween Comedy
play script for high school/ teenagers

Hasta La Vista, Dracula!

Joining forces, the dedicated gentlemen will not rest until Dracula is staked.
However, there might be a problem:
Mina's bored with her Victorian lady life
and finds all this vampire business
a lot more exciting than embroidery.

The play is suitable for performance by students
aged 13-16 (Year 9-11, 8th-10th Grade). 

The script is available in two versions -
60 minutes or 75 minutes.

60 minute version: 3 scenes, 17 characters; 6 roles recommended for acting by females, 2 roles recommended for performance by males. With doubling of roles, the play could be performed by 14 students.

75 minute version: 4 scenes, 21 characters; 6 recommended for F, 2 recommended for M. With doubling - 16.

Please specify the version (60 minute or 75 minute) in your message during the purchase or send us an email. Unless specified otherwise, we will email the 75 minute version. 

Set:

Dracula's castle in Transylvania and London, 1897

Synopsis:

Jonathan Harker arrives at Count Dracula's sinister castle in Transylvania to help the Count buy a property in London. Soon Jonathan becomes a prisoner, awaiting a terrible fate at the hands of three female pensioner vampires. Luckily, he escapes without losing a drop of blood. However, Dracula has by now taken up residence in London and seeks to turns Jonathan's own wife, Mina, into a vampire. Jonathan joins forces with Professor Van Helsing and several other distinguished gentlemen to pursue the Count. The hunt leads them to Dracula's castle on the evening of 31st October. However, it's not quite the ending they all expect since Mina has a surprise for them...

 

Characters
(75 minute version):

VAN HELSING (M)
MINA (F)
JONATHAN HARKER (M)
DRACULA
JACK
LUCY (F) fiancée to Arthur
ARTHUR fiancé to Lucy
QUINCEY
2 NARRATORS
RENFIELD mental patient
JOURNALIST
NURSE
MRS WESTENRA (F)
2 MILKMEN
3 PENSIONER VAMPIRES
CLEANER
NEWSPAPER SELLER



Hasta La Vista, Dracula! 

Sample from the play script:

...
NARRATOR 2: All the doors I tried were locked. A growing sense of desperation began to seize me. Finally, one door on top of a stairway gave under pressure and I entered a different wing of the castle.

(Jonathan explores behind screen and emerges.)

NARRATOR 1: From the end room windows I saw that the castle was constructed on a great precipice. The castle was a veritable prison and I was its prisoner.

...
NARRATOR 2: Quaint little specks of dust danced hypnotically in the moonlight and then formed wanton female shapes before my very eyes. I was paralysed with fear. They approached casting no shadow.

(Enter THREE PENSIONER VAMPIRES very slowly using Zimmer frames.)

PENSIONER VAMPIRE 2: Go on, Mabel! You can be first, and we shall follow. I've got some knitting to finish anyway.

PENSIONER VAMPIRE 3: Yes, he's very young and strong, and there'll be lots of kisses for us all!

(All Pensioner Vampires pucker their lips.)

PENSIONER VAMPIRE 1: Who's a lucky boy then?

JONATHAN: HELP! They're pensioners! Someone save me!

PENSIONER VAMPIRE 1: (Leans over Jonathan and abruptly stands up.)  Silly me! I've forgotten my fangs in a glass in the bathroom. I'd forget my own head if it wasn't stapled on.

PENSIONER VAMPIRE 2: Oh, goodie it's my turn then. You go and put the kettle on.

(Enter DRACULA in rage.)  ...

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