Vampires on Vacation, The

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By: R. Eugene Jackson
Cast: 4 M, 8 F, 14 flexible, opt. extras (With doubling: 4 M, 8 F, 12 flexible)
Performance Time: Approximately 100-120 minutes, 100 pgs

COMEDY. In this biting comedy, Demonica and her fellow vampires need a relaxing vacation. In the past, they’ve hung out in Kentucky at Mammoth Cave, toured haunted cemeteries in New Orleans, and even took an international flight to Transylvania to spend time with relatives. But this year the vampires decide to take a more leisurely vacation at Castle Gloom, a haunted castle on Devil’s Food Island. Everyone’s invited including Gastly, a vampire who doesn’t have fangs and has to drink blood from a straw, and Garlic, a vampire who has horrible breath because he eats too much garlic. Excited, the vampires gleefully hop inside their coffins and ship themselves via United Coffin Service to Castle Gloom. It is a dark and stormy night when the vampires are delivered to Castle Gloom where they discover to their horror that they are not alone in the castle. There are annoying ghost-hunting college students, howling werewolves, ghosts and zombies in the attic, and even witches and bats in the belfry!

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During his career of teaching drama on the university level, R. Eugene Jackson has written more than 100 plays and musicals (books and lyrics), and has close to 80 publications. Jackson lives and writes in Mobile, AL, and spends part of his time in New Orleans.