Scene 2 Looking For the Vampire

Act 1

Scene 1 Prologue (Temple of the Roses – 2003)

M1 “Overture”

With a crack of thunder, we see a vampire menacing a wilting woman. However, suddenly it seems more like a dance, and the “vampire” looses his balance and nearly drops his partner. More people appear on stage, wearing modern clothing.

Cassandra: Could you perhaps support me properly? I’m Cassandra, the best prima donna in this Balkan country.

Clifford: I am not a dancer. I am a member of the original cast of “Dracula of the Opera House”!

Cassandra: Robert! You’re the producer, aren’t you? What is this “Vampire Requiem”?!

Robert: Now, now. Don’t get so fired up, you two. It’s because this is a charity event to mark the rebuilding of the temple in the Valley of Roses.

Cassandra: Mr. President of Balkan Aviation, you said my art was necessary for this.

Rilski: Yes, these ruins have been acknowledged by the World Heritage Foundation.

Clifford: In short, it’s a plot to lure in the tourists with a legend that “a vampire was here”.

Cassandra: I can’t dance with this third-rate actor as my partner. I’m leaving!

Cassandra storms off the stage.

Robert: Cassandra! Wait, please!

Clifford: I am a musical star!

Rilski: Hey, you! What about the event!

Clifford storms off in the opposite direction, just as two new people appear.

Peter: Oh, how difficult.

Rilski: You are?

Peter: I’m Peter Hunt. I’m an author here for the vampire symposium.

Maria: Oh! “Vampires vs. Godzilla”?

Rilski: This is my wife.

Maria: Nice to meet you.

Sarah: I’m Sarah, a vampire researcher.

Rilski: Hello. But, just between you and me, do you really think there were vampires?

Maria: I don’t believe it. It’s only a legend, right?

Peter: We’ve gathered from all over the world to shed light on that.

A huge suit of armor in a glass case is wheeled past them, followed by an official-looking gentleman and a young lady.

Rennfield: Hey, you, be more careful carrying that!

Man: Yes sir!

M2 “Jennifer Arrives”

Rilski: Where on earth did this come from…?

Jennifer: It was excavated from this temple after World War II.

Peter: This is Ms. Jennifer McCartney, from the London “History Detection Club”.

Jennifer: My grandfather brought it back with him to England. I thought I’d take this opportunity to return it to its original home.

Rilski: Wonderful! I thank you on behalf of the Balkan people.

Sarah: Jennifer, aren’t you jet-lagged?

Jennifer: A little.

Peter: She’s another participant in the symposium.

Jennifer: Is everyone gathered?

Rilski: We were partway through rehearsals, but we ran into some trouble.

Rennfield: There are drinks in that waiting room over there.

Maria: Shall we go have some?

Rennfield begins herding the crowd toward the refreshments, but Jennifer hangs back.

Jennifer: Sarah, can I look around the ruins? There won’t be much more of an opportunity today.

Sarah: We’ll go on ahead.

Rilski: So, how do you all intend to prove the existence of vampires?

Peter: With this book. I got it in a flea market in Milano.

Maria: What’s written in it?

Peter: It’s a journal written in Medieval Latin.

As everyone exits chattering about the book, Jennifer becomes strangely tired and lies down on a convenient sofa. She falls asleep…

A vampire appears, surrounded by others in red velvet capes. He carries a rose, which he plucks the petals from one by one as he sings.

M3 “Vampire Requiem”

Francis:

A rose showered with drops of moonlight

Glistening with tears from the stars

Damp with the secret haze of night

Woo Woo Woo

All living things in this world

Hold their life dear

If you are destined to lose your life,

Who will you love?

Aaa, vampire

Aaa, requiem

Eternal life

Drifting in the sea of time

Aaa, vampire

Aaa, requiem

The burden of unending time

Wandering in search of love

Jennifer wakes up screaming, and everyone comes running.

Scene 2 Looking For the Vampire

Peter: What happened?

Sarah: Are you alright?

Jennifer: Ah, I wonder if I was dreaming?

Rilski: Did one of my company planes crash?

Jennifer: A vampire appeared.

Maria: Oh my. Were there fangs? Were they sharp?

Jennifer: No. He was as beautiful as he was frightening…

Robert: Did something happen?

Clifford: I heard a scream.

Peter: There was a vampire!

Clifford: What?! Did he look like me?

Jennifer: Not at all….

Robert: Was it an illusion?

Sarah: Maybe it was déjà vu.

All: Eh?

Sarah: A prescient dream. You’ll meet him soon. The vampire.

M4: “Looking For the Vampire”

Sarah:

I wonder where they could be? The vampires?

I’ve looked all over the world

Peter:

In novels and comics

In movies, musicals, and plays

Both:

Although they should be dreadful blood-sucking demons

Everyone is fascinated by them

All:

Looking for vampire

Clifford: The king of Transylvania was Dracula’s ancestor.

Robert: But Dracula was only one. There are many vampire legends from all over the world.

Sarah:

Do they really drink blood?

All:

Looking for vampire

Peter:

Do they sleep in coffins?

All:

Looking for vampire

Jennifer:

Does the day make them weak?

All:

Looking for vampire

Clifford & Robert:

Are they scared of garlic and crosses?

All:

Looking for vampire

Rilski:

If you meet one, do you yearn for it, eternal life?

Maria:

And eternal youth

All:

Oh! Oh! I wonder where they could be?

I want to meet one, but I don’t want to be attacked

Like in a horror or a mystery

An attractive zombie

I wonder where the vampires could be?

Let’s go and search

Looking for vampire

Let’s go and look

Looking for vampire

Looking for vampire

Eternal life, Ah-

Rilski: And what’s written in that journal or whatever it is?

Peter: The writer is Francis de Valois. He was a knight attached to the Templar Order.

Clifford: The Templar Order, that’s the one that was oppressed and wiped out?

Peter: Yes. He was the last survivor, and he managed to wind his way deep into these Balkan Mountains. (reads) In the Year of Our Lord 1314, in the fifth month, my pursuers finally followed me into this Valley of the Roses…

Peter’s voice fades out, overlapped by a voice from the past as Francis takes over the narration.

Francis: … my pursuers finally followed me into this Valley of the Roses…

The First Tale: The Knight Francis (The Valley of the Roses 1314)

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