(Black Cat) Vampire Cat and the Scarlet Gypsy.

‘It was on a moonlit night some five hundred years ago. When the warm wind blew across the Rock of Gibraltar and carried with it the scent of her passion. She was close, somewhere in this large gathering of the Romany tribes. I was roaming between the different camps of musicians’ and dancers when I saw Scarlet illuminated in the fire’s glow. She was moving to the flamenco playing, her luscious lean body swirling to the passionate rhythms while her eyes sparkled like flaming jewels in the night… and I purred at her soul’s proximity.’

As always a special thanks to that famous 1st gentleman of Nyack Mr. Mark Tucker.

Vampire Cat and the Scarlet gypsy were an outgrowth of our work performing ‘Old time radio scripts’ and my own obsession with vampires. The two elements melded together in this wild and wacky story set in an imagined 1960s. I discovered the Japanese tale of the Vampire Cat of Nabeshima and created my own version of the story. A feline samurai sword wielding, supernatural hero who has lived for centuries. Following and falling in love with the endless reincarnations of his eternal lover, the Scarlet Gypsy. Of course there’s a nemesis, Doctor Raton and his sidekick Rodere who have been searching for the ultimate weapon ‘The Manuscript of the Black Score’ with which to take control of the world and destroy Vampire Cat. It was more of a staged performance with extended monologues and outlandish dialogue soaked in puns, plus a hand puppet which Tom Jones made. It was a lot of fun to perform and audiences had a blast.