The Vampyre (Kelly)
Tim Kelly
Varney The Vampire, Or, "The Feast Of Blood"
by Tim Kelly, Thomas Prest
What readers are saying
Readers find 'Varney The Vampire' to be a challenging read. One review highlights issues with the narrative's aimlessness and character development over time.
Aimless narrative progressionPoor character development
Synopsis
This wild and clever spoof is based on a melodramatic novel attributed to Thomas Prest, the creator of Sweeney Todd .
In 1900 weary vampire Sir Francis Varney shows up at an inn in Italy.
He plans to visit a haunted grotto and ask forgiveness from a lost love whose ghost is doomed to roam the landscape wearing a thin veil over her face.
Varney forgets his mission and proceeds to snarl and snap at everyone in sight, especially an English damsel.
Varney is shot, stabbed with a wooden stake and hanged.
Still he survives!
The action gets sillier and sillier (and funnier and funnier) as Inspector Balsadella seeks answers for the strange goings on.
The tongue in cheek style is a howl, and there are many optional, corny stage effects as well as a zany cast of characters.
Ultimately Varney manages to destroy himself.
Press Reviews
"Kelly savors the conventions of pure entertainment...[He is] among the most produced and crowd pleasing playwrights across the country."
— Pasadena Weekly
"Gripping vampire Comedy...Chillingly delightful"
— Bunbury Reporter, Australia
Publication
PublisherSamuel French
Year1990
BindingPaperback
Pages132
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573691553
ISBN-10057369155X
LCCN90190869
LCCIN PROCESS (ONLINE)
Varney The Vampire, Or, "The Feast Of Blood" is a British comedy play written by Tim Kelly and published by Samuel French in New York (1990).
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Samuel French · 1990 · 132 pp
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