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Motion · S6M-10487 · 18 Sep 2023

North East Play, Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning, Tours Country

Lodged by Jackie Dunbar (Scottish National Party) Standard Motion 17 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament commends the National Theatre of Scotland and Aberdeen Performing Arts, in association with Belgrade Theatre Coventry, on their newest production Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning; notes that the play is a Scottish re-telling of the Bram Stoker classic, which, it understands, delivers its story through the Doric dialect and features an all-women and non-binary cast; understands that the use of Doric in this play is a reflection of the influence that the north east had on Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, while he spent his summers at Cruden Bay; further understands that the play is centred around the character, Mina Murray, who recounts her encounters with Dracula to the patients of a psychiatric hospital in Aberdeenshire in 1897; recognises that the play made its debut at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen on 7 September 2023 and is currently on tour across Scotland and England until late October 2023; celebrates everyone involved with the play for their hard work, and wishes them all the best on their upcoming shows.

Supporters (17)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.