Upon his departure, he learns that all the young women of the tribe have been taken into slavery by a man named Torres, the criminal lord of the nearby Penny Town. Yet she gives him an herbal concoction that would allow him to temporarily walk in the sunlight, under the condition he leaves their village. Falling to an almost-certain death as the rising sun begins to catch his skin aflame, Dracula is discovered by a small Native American boy, who covers him and rides him into his village.ĭracula is reluctantly healed by the boy’s grandmother, the shamaness of the tribe, who can see into his merciless past.
With the audience’s curiosity peaked we find a horseman, draped in an ornate cape and hat, fatigued and out of place, as he and his equine companion slog through the deserts of the American Southwest. Citing the various films, books, plays, and parodies that Dracula has appeared in since Bram Stoker’s novelization, Piredda muses, “everything has been said about him… or has it?” Before we begin our story, we are greeted by an introduction from our writer, Gianluca Piredda in which he reflects on the legacy of the titular count.
