- Angry Zombie
If you happen to see a bunch of Zombies protesting The New Moon Theatre Company‘s production of Look Away: A Civil War Zombie Tragedy don’t worry. You haven’t eaten too much candy, it’s really happening. You see there have been some well publicized protests in New York because a hearing actor has been cast as a deaf character in Rebecca Gilman’s stage adaptation of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. That has inspired and empowered local zombies who are furious at New Moon for casting un-undead actors in Look Away. Or maybe it’s all just a big publicity stunt/excuse to dress up like a zombie and lumber around the town in search of brains.
Look Away, by Memphis playwrights Zac Cunningham and Stephen Briner, was originally brought to life in 2007. Now — like all evil creatures of the night — it’s been resurrected, and, according to director Gene Elliott, it’s “more gritty and gruesome” than ever. But the play, about a family confronting unknown terrors at the end of the Civil War, is more than an homage to the classic zombie flicks of George Romero and Dario Argento.
