Hutton Honors College

An Evening at the Theatre: From Dracula to Fear Factor: What Can the Arts Tell Us About our Fears?

This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, click here.

What are we afraid of? Join Richard Burke, actor, Honors College faculty member, and professor emeritus of telecommunications, in a discussion of what we fear and how the arts have been used to address those fears. After the discussion and dessert, attend a performance at the nearby Ruth N. Halls Theatre of Dracula, a recent play by Steven Dietz that provides a modern take on Bram Stoker's classic 1890 vampire novel. Dietz's play blends humor and horror to explore fear, faith, passion, and our belief in science without, as one preview notes, "sacrificing the lifeblood of [Stoker's] original story" of the vampire from Transylvania.

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