Show: 21
Title: Our Zombie Town
Category: Comedy / Horror / Literary adaptation / Political content / Shakespearian elements
By: Pat O'Brien
Created by: Richard Chin, Pat O'Brien, Larry Ripp and cast
Location: Mixed Blood Theatre
Summary: One of the most classic works of the American stage, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, but with zombies (also an American classic).
Highlights: The show is very cleverly written (by Richard Chin) in the familiar conversational fourth-wall breaking style of Our Town, with Kurt Schulz as our narrator in a Fringe artist lanyard. The story begins with the surviving citizens of Grover's Corners (including the Webb and Gibbs families) living in an abandoned Walmart, fending off zombies (a familiar situation to fans of The Walking Dead). The daily sweet mundane daily life continues, including the Emily/George romance, as more and more people become (still semi conscious) zombies (an unfamiliar situation to TWD fans). When a cure becomes available, Emily has to make a decision to go back to the old busy life where everyone is preoccupied on their phones, or spend one last day with her love in a world that's all about eating brains together. Our Zombie Town is a mashup of a theater classic and a horror B-movie, complete with some fun cheesy effects and an impressive wood chipper, a clever idea well-executed by the team.
