Downed straight after the office Christmas party, this high-spirited spoof on Bram Stoker's Dracula might seem pretty amusing. Taken stone-cold sober it is more bemusing than funny. Produced by the team behind last year's Animal Crackers, it begins inventively with Jonathan Harker confiding in his diary as he sets out on a journey to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula. But what starts as a clever and funny delve into the Victorian psyche, repressed sexuality, and an English distrust of foreigners, soon descends into a comic caper.

Thanks to designer Johanna Bryant the show - a mock-gothic heaven complete with models of the Transylvanian countryside and hideous-looking peasants who break into Les Mis-style songs - looks good. But Braham Murray's production puts silliness before sense, and there is a feeling that the whole thing has run out of both fake blood and Barry Manilow jokes long before one of the characters declares: "This is ridiculous. Let's just cut to the chase." The cast work like bats out of hell; you just wish that they had something substantial to get their teeth into.

• Till January 8. Box office: 0161-833 9833.