Highlights of The Bram Stoker Festival, running October Friday 24 through to Monday October 27, include a Macnas procession, a VampWire over the city and an underground train journey through a tunnel that many thought mythical.
A Dublin City Council initiative in association with Fáilte Ireland, the festival is inspired by the heritage of world famous Dublin horror novelist Bram Stoker and his notorious novel Dracula. The Festival will encompass large-scale spectacles to intimate performances in unusual spaces, with a wide range of film and literary events.
Macnas will present The Summoning, a street spectacle which will wind its way through Dublin’s city streets. Underground Gothic will take guests on a journey through the almost mythical Irish Rail train tunnel deep under the Phoenix Park to discover the dark side of Dublin’s underground.
With music by composer Tom Lane and directed by Maeve Stone, this unique performance will rattle under the city for one night only combining, sound, movement and chilling performances.
The VampWire will see vampires young and old take to the skies in Dublin’s first ever free city centre zip-wire. On The VampWire, you can make like a bat and zip over the city. Golden tickets for this event will be allocated by ballot.
Also in the hugely packed programme, is the ethereal Shapeshifter’s Ball from party masters Body& Soul at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Irish première of The Curse of Styria featuring Stephen Rea. This is described as a `secretive, sexy and sinister’ film based on Le Fanu’s Carmilla.
The full programme of events can be seen at www.bramstokerfestival.com
