{"title": "Bram Stoker: Father of Dracula", "start": "2026-10-28T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Irish Cultural Centre", "address": "5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/whats-on/?_sft_event_type=book", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "literature"], "description": "A screening of the documentary Bram Stoker: Father of Dracula, followed by a Q&A with producer Anna Emm. The film, edited and directed by award-winning, IFTA-nominated filmmaker Jason Figgis and written by John West and Dacre Stoker, explores the life, inspirations and hidden obsessions of the Irish writer who created Dracula. Drawing on private journals, rare historical documents and insights from Stoker's own descendant, it traces the origins of one of literature's most enduring characters. Anna Emm is a South African author and producer based in London who has written and produced more than 3,000 original audio stories for children.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bram-stoker-father-of-dracula-41573/", "official_url": "https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/bram-stoker-father-of-dracula-documentary-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c8231b60a6fb0c3a66ed433e988e082155d386931c86f2ed41cea59c0fb3bf6-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-28T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Irish Cultural Centre", "address": "5 Black's Road, Hammersmith, W6 9DT", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Dracula", "start": "2026-10-20T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "place": "Bridge House Theatre", "address": "High Street 2, SE20 8RZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-bridge-house-theatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/fiction/gothic-fiction", "stage/theatre/horror"], "description": "\"Dracula\" is a bone chilling horror stage show. Written and directed by Andrew Hobbs, it brings Bram Stoker's gothic classic to life in a thrilling and innovative new version. Vampire hunter Mina Harker is invited to speak at a Victorian scientific society seeking to discredit her claims, but her tale of fighting the sinister Count Dracula chills them to the bone. The cast includes Ellie Ward as Mina Harker, Brendan Matthew as Abraham Van Helsing, Megan Carter as Jonathan Harker and Paul Winterford as Count Dracula.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dracula-35082/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a754e318e95dd8984fc3fac79c98543d988e7bf684ed3e545dd8e19fd443925a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dracula", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Adelphi Theatre", "address": "Strand 409-412, WC2R 0NS London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/adelphi-theatre", "category": "dance", "tags": ["literature/horror", "stage/ballet"], "description": "Dracula is a gothic ballet production returning to London after sold-out seasons around the world. Created by BIG Live, with choreography by Joel Burke and a score led by Emmy Award-winning composer Jason Fernandez, it reimagines Bram Stoker's 1897 novel in a dark, cinematic way. It tells how the warrior Vlad becomes the lord of vampires after his wife's death, and two centuries later pursues Mina Harker, who resembles his lost wife. Alumni dancers from companies such as English National Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet perform to iconic music by Debussy, Liszt, Saint-Saëns and Mussorgsky.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dracula-63430/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e08df3c1966fc5def7e85b84769d6432a12ed94f1d31b19f2ef514b1902681a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Dracula", "start": "2026-10-30T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/vampire"], "description": "The horror film Dracula, restored by Hammer Films and Kaleidoscope Entertainment in partnership with Warner Bros, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling and Peter Cushing. After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, determined to destroy Dracula whatever the cost. The restoration reinstates footage believed missing for more than six decades, previously seen only at the film's original Japanese theatrical release in 1958.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dracula-37827/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018699/dracula-4k-restoration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/217fed229d635583b15a6794adac911242163a57f711d0f0157df84cf2d26d59-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stoker Wilde", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Wilton's Music Hall", "address": "Graces Alley 1, E1 8JB London", "price": "£14.50 – £29.00 full price | £12.00 – £26.50 concession", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "29.00", "tickets_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/an-audience-with-virginia-woolf-writing-ones-mind/#Tickets_in", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/drama", "music/rock", "stage/musical"], "description": "STOKER WILDE is a new glam rock musical receiving its world premiere in a concert staged production. It has book and lyrics by Eric Rosen, music and lyrics by Rodney Bush, and direction by Seimi Campbell, with West End stars Connor Carson as Stoker and Glenn Adamson as Wilde alongside multi-Olivier Award winner David Bedella as Henry Irving. The show imagines Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde as two Dublin boys who ran away to London, climbed the ladders of society and culture, lived secret and not-so-secret gay lives, and fell into an intoxicating rivalry that transformed British Theatre and defined queer horror forever. The 90-minute, one-act developmental sharing explores ambition, desire, jealousy, fame and the friendship that inspired two of the greatest monsters ever created.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stoker-wilde-40339/", "official_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/stoker-wilde/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/32b8c5d29c7dcc6d5fa3d6e274498289e2b509ef3a0f2aa22febc54999dde01f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn Season: Jekyll and Hyde by Evan Placey after Robert Louis Stevenson", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rose Bruford College", "address": "Burnt Oak Lane, DA15 9DF Sidcup", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A stage performance at The Barn Theatre of Rose Bruford College, running in the college's Autumn Season. It is Evan Placey's adaptation of Jekyll & Hyde, reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Gothic thriller for a modern audience, directed by Maisie Newman and performed by BA Acting and Actor Musicianship students. After Dr Jekyll's mysterious death, his widow Harriet searches for answers as rumours spread about the elusive Hyde, in a story blending Victorian London with today's digital world that explores identity, power and the suppression of who people really are.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-season-jekyll-and-hyde-by-evan-placey-after-robert-lo-64925/", "official_url": "https://www.bruford.ac.uk/event/jekyll-and-hyde/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b7ecc6ea2e9c115f2c9c9d8167194abb80aef27c4f3df3f69900a3bb6af32e96-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "£13.50 – £19", "price_from": "13.50", "price_to": "19.00", "tickets_url": "https://theartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature/classics"], "description": "A gothic theatre piece staged inside Boston Manor House, running as an intimate thriller for ages 11 and up. The Arts Centre Hounslow presents Jack Fairey's new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. In London in 1886, Dr Henry Jekyll hosts a dinner while two brutal crimes point to the mysterious Edward Hyde, and as the evening unfolds his respectable world begins to fracture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-35026/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fea32b37b9d0cd12f3120dbc2f2221ca342a9da0dc0da64e98c54b238149ef46-1200.webp"}, {"title": "First Scares", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£22.50 – £40", "price_from": "22.50", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketlab.app/series/2886#/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "First Scares is a two-show event in which broadcaster and writer Matthew Sweet explores what film or TV moments genuinely terrified stars of stage and screen. The 14:00 session features interviews with Peter Straughan (Conclave), BAFTA-winning Best Actress Joanna Scanlan (After Love) and Angela Allen; the 17:00 session features Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League of Gentlemen), Lesley Manville (The Crown, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune) and Carol Morley (The Falling, Typist Artist Pirate King). Expect favourite scares, childhood nightmares and plenty of debate about what really gets under our skin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/first-scares-39074/", "official_url": "https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/first-scares/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ebfb7bc7dfa7390977add9f248e9b3ad2d4a1460661cafeefc340e263f69f84d-2000.webp"}]}