Here’s a older story that managed to slip through hyper sensitive zombie news net (by hyper sensitive, I should say, as thick as granite blocks). Back in 2008, a theater group decided to put on a rendition of our oldie but goodie Night of the Living Dead. From the description, it sounded like a real performance for the books. Here’s a quick snippet from the article:

Is this live version of the cult-classic George Romero horror flick gory, grisly and ghoulish enough? Does it match the 1968 movie it’s based on as an “unrelieved orgy of sadism” (as one aghast critic put it)?

Perhaps not, but as tongue-in-cheek romps about flesh-gobbling monsters go, “Night of the Living Dead” is plenty yucky. It’s also pure escapist fun — for any teen (or adult) who can enjoy creature-feature camp without getting freaked by suspenseful but blatantly hokey stage savagery.

Closely following the “Night of the Living Dead” screenplay by Romero and John Russo, Lori Allen Ohm’s play resurrects a B-plot that starts with two adult siblings, Johnny (Troy Fischnaller) and Barb (Sarah Harlett), having their first brush with those gosh-darn zombies in a dark cemetery.

This sounds like a blast of a production that I wish would travel the country, but alas, it could only be seen in Seattle. If there’s one thing to take from this play is that we need more zombie productions. No matter how big the budget or fancy the effects, movies will never match the persona intensity of live theater.

SCT pulls off a lively version of a zombie classic (seattletimes.nwsource.com <- new window)