Original radio play by Angela Carter, later forming the basis for the short story The Lady of the House of Love in the collection The Bloody Chamber. Broadcast at BBC RADIO 3, 20 July 1976,(61 min)
Carter describes it: the "lovely lady vampire' skulks in her Transylvanian castle, "bored with the endless deaths and resurrections", and caged by "hereditary appetites that she found both compulsive and loathsome". A young British officer arrives, who kills her with the innocence of his kiss, and then goes off to die in a war "far more hideous than any of our fearful superstitious imaginings".
ORIGINAL CAST[]
Countess Vampirella/Elizabeth Ba'athory..........Anna Massey
Count Dracula/ Sawney Beane/ Henri Blot……..David March
Hero..........Richard O'Callaghan
Mrs. Beane...........Betty Hardy,
Other parts played by....David Graham, Elizabeth Lindsay
Greek Priest........John Theocharis.
Announcer: John Curle.
Produced by Glyn Dearman.
RTÉ version[]
RTÉ Drama On One did another verion of Vampirella in 1992, produced by Aidan Mathews.
CAST Rté
Vampirella.............Cathryn Brennan
Jonathan Harker....David Heap
Count Dracula.........Aiden Grennell
Mrs Beane................ Barbara McCaughey
Sawney Beane.........Peter Dix
Necrophiles...............Kate Minogue and Michael James Forde
AN EVENING WITH ANGELA CARTER[]
On 2018, BBC produced An evening with Angela Carter, presenting new versions of Carter's Vampirella and Come Unto these Yellow Sands mixed with readings of Carter's commentaries.
CAST BBC 2018 version
THE COUNTESS ... Jessica Raine
THE COUNT ... Anton Lesser
HERO ... Oliver Chris
MRS BEANE ... Doon Mackichan
SAWNEY/GATEKEEPER/PRIEST ... Kevin McMonagle
BOY ... William Gidney
YOUNG COUNTESS ... Tilly Meeson
VILLAGERS/PEASANTS ... Pip Williams, Rose Reade, Lucy Mangan, Tré Gordon
Director/Producer - Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design - Wilfredo Acosta