Date/Time
Date(s) - 24 Jul 2012 until 28 Jul 2012
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Tickets: €8 Tues 24th/ €13 Weds 25th to Sat 28th

The Devious Theatre Company are bringing the Irish Stage premiere of ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ to The Watergate Theatre this July. The Kilkenny-based company will peform a brand new stage version of George A. Romero’s classic horror. It will be the first time any version of the work has been performed in Ireland. The original 1968 movie is regarded as one of the most seminal horror movies of all time and regarded as the template for political commentary in horror cinema. It also gave birth to what has become known as the ‘zombie’ genre of movies.

The production is written by John Morton and Connie Walsh and uses the original script by George A. Romero and John A. Russo as a jumping off point. It has been transposed from a farmhouse in rural Philadelphia in 1968 to a ghost estate in the south east of Ireland in 2012. It tells the story of a group of disparate strangers, trapped in an abandoned house after an unknown incident causes the dead to come back and attack the living. This new theatrical version uses the story to examine present day issues in a fear-gripped modern day Ireland. Like the original movie, it is a darkly comic satire that depicts the capacity for horrific acts in normal people in times of crisis.

The cast of Night Of The Living Dead includes Angela Barret, Darragh Byrne, Alex Christle, Anne Cody, Stephen Colfer, Alan Doyle, Hazel Doyle, Abbey Harris, Adrian Kavanagh, John Kennedy, Ken McGuire, Kevin Mooney, John Morton, Aoibhin Murphy, Eddie Murphy, Maria Murray, Colin O’Brien, Nuala Roche, Connie Walsh and Paul Young.

For production updates, visit http://nightofthelivingdead.ie/