I'm always looking forward to checking out any new Dracula editions in the local bookstores, and this is by far a favorite of mine! I do regret not getting it when I had the chance.
I wanted to share this post as a thank you to whomever made a mention of this little theatre play a few weeks ago on this subreddit – I had just joined weirdgirlliterature and was looking for something of substance to revive my long-dead reading habits...
I absolutely loved it. Although it's extremely simple and conversational in its writing style, the impact this story has made on me was really something.
Somehow throughout all of the duration of the play it felt like I had lived a version of every interaction in one way or another and it had me thinking.
I believe we have all felt what deep-seated female rage feels, and the powerlessness in the face of bigotry and injustice that births it. We have surely felt alienated in our wishes of basic decency and respect, both for humans and animals, in a world that bows to the tenet of “divide and conquer”. We had tried to fight, and we had failed, and we had made mistakes but we had come out on the other side of it all having met our stronger and much wiser, braver self. Sometimes that “self” comes in the shape of a “special” crow. And it brings us gifts worthy of the warrior woman, who, even in her most terrified and lonely moments, refused to betray herself.
Such tragic moments at times and yet there's whimsy, and magic, and hope, and divine justice, which is all such a deep-felt journey of "becoming" I went on together with Beth. This one's for the weird girls, you were absolutely right 🖤