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Count Dykula

 
JP Review by JP 4 Published: 10 Aug 2025 Pleasance Dome Show Dates: 30 Jul 2025-25 Aug 2025

Not many people in the audience can say the title of this show. But thank god I can. As the only dyke sitting in my row, waiting for the much anticipated Count Dykula to start, I gleamed at the crowd of people who came out for this show.

Will entertain you, make you laugh and even make you sing

Count Dykula, a lesbian loner, attends Scare University. The Dean, Scarlet Fang, wants to enrol humans at the cost of banning monsters. Count Dykula and her friends must band together to take the dean down. This musical comedy left me delighted and impressed.

With clever double casting, the trio of performers constantly juggle multiple characters, never failing to make us laugh by acknowledging the chaos. Striking a perfect balance between earnestness and camp, the show achieves exactly what it sets out to do. The journey feels full, never missing a comedic beat, with total insistence that Count Dykula is, in fact, a top.

In the canon of the kind of Fringe shows you go to with a pint, this is one of the most well-crafted, funny and meaningful. Its use of camp creates a playful space where we root for the characters the whole time. Every character feels like they have a substantive backstory – take Werepug, for example: half werewolf, half pug. The songs are expertly crafted (and catchy), always pushing the plot forward. The comedy in both the songs and Dykula’s confessional asides cuts through the artifice of the musical.

While the ending felt a little rushed, the show still delivers. It’s such a fun time it will have you howling. Catch this show while you can get a spot in the front row! The company, Airlock Theatre, is also producing Lesbian Space Crime, which I’m thrilled to see as well.

Deeply silly yet serious in its engagement with an important subject – why are masculine women so persecuted? – Count Dykula will entertain you, make you laugh and even make you sing.

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Butch loner Count Dykula loves her life, even though she's technically dead. Her gothic castle slaps and she gets to prey on humans who stray behind the big Asda. But trouble looms when Scare University preaches "the right way to be a monster" and Dykula sets out to tear down the ultra-femme busty bloodsuckers who rule the school. 'Belly-achingly hilarious' ***** (ShinyLife.co.uk) and a gay goth's wet dream, Count Dykula comes from the creators of Pansexual Pregnant Piracy (Soho Theatre) and Lesbian Space Crime.