From Booklist
Contemporary U.S. playwright Wellman has never been easy to like. His eccentric, surrealistic works, with their extreme characters, manic wordplay, and complicated, confusing plots, seem out of step at a time when realism dominates American theater. But when Wellman adapted Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1994, his nonrealistic style actually captured its spirit and horror better than more traditional, linear stage versions, partly because Wellman's experience with nonlinear storytelling prepared him well for Stoker's fragmented novel, which tells Dracula's story through a series of letters and journal entries. It also helps that Wellman's word-drunk dialogue conveys well the madness and deep, mysterious yearnings Dracula inspires in his victims, especially Lucy and Mina. Wellman's Dracula is one of two vampire plays collected here. The other, Swoop, introduces a modern-day Dracula who, with a pair of succubi, haunts contemporary New York by night, looking for a bloody fix. Jack Helbig
Review
Playwright Wellman chooses as his setting the last days of 1899 in Transylvania, creating a house of horrors in which two sexually active beings escape into the world of vampires. In Dracula and in Swoop, vampires are motivated by the urge to bite in this literary presentation of connected plays. -- Midwest Book Review
