Dracula: The Bloody Truth review " defanged comedy stretches the joke too far
Octagon, BoltonBram Stoker's novel gets redone in the style of The Play That Goes Wrong, in an energetically performed but ultimately feeble farce We have a cost of living crisis and a boring election and a summer that keeps stalling and, for all I know, maybe audiences have an appetite for a comedy take on Dracula " a novel famed for not being in the least bit funny. It would be hard to begrudge them such innocent p…