Night of the Living Dead
Seven strangers take refuge from flesh eating ‘ghouls’ in an isolated farmhouse. As the night draws in, their situation becomes desperate, hope turns to despair, and the picket-fence American dream is smashed apart.
Seven performers enter the stage armed with cameras, a box of props and a rail of costumes. Can they recreate the film, shot-for-shot before our eyes, using whatever they can lay there hands on?
50 years after the release of George A. Romero’s politically charged zombie movie, as liberal values are under threat, and we find ourselves adrift in a climate of mistrust and paranoia, imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse create a love-song to the original 1960s film, retelling it as a searing story for now.
Leeds Playhouse
Fri 24 Jan – Sat 15 Feb
Liverpool Playhouse
Tue 18 – Sat 22 Feb
Exeter Northcott
Tues & Wed, 25 & 26 Feb
Theatr Clywd
Fi & Sat, 28 & 29 Feb
Nottingham Playhouse
Tues & Wed, 10 & 11 March
Dundee Rep
Fri & Sat, 13 & 14 March
Manchester Home
Wed 18 – Sat 21 March