all up in a school bus (a short play about zombies)
I wrote a fake deleted scene from Night of the Living Dead (1968) for
this play-writing contest.
They're doing a staged reading of it this Friday, 1/25, after the production of Speed the Plow at the A.C.T. The play starts like this:
The play is only three minutes long, so I wouldn't cross any time-zones to see it or anything, but if you're in the neighborhood and you were thinking of going to Speed the Plow anyway...
this play-writing contest.
They're doing a staged reading of it this Friday, 1/25, after the production of Speed the Plow at the A.C.T. The play starts like this:
FIRST ZOMBIE
We should get all up in a school bus or something. I'm sick of this nickle-and-dime shit.
SECOND ZOMBIE
School bus. Yeah. And then we can go to space and get a pony and become president. Keep walking.
FIRST ZOMBIE
I'll go right in the front door, you know, it folds, it makes that noise, and everybody's screaming, and when they try to get out the back, you're waiting. It'll be a big yellow box of candy. Only with pigtails.
The play is only three minutes long, so I wouldn't cross any time-zones to see it or anything, but if you're in the neighborhood and you were thinking of going to Speed the Plow anyway...
posted by Daniel Heath at 18:20
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Here was the explanation of the scene I sent with the contest submission:
About the submission:
My scene is in the first of the three listed styles, 'Rewrite a classic film scene.' I am rewriting a scene from the original 1968 'Night of the Living Dead,' although the scene I am rewriting was, in the theatrical release, cut down to just a wide shot of two zombies slowly advancing on the house. Writers George Romero and John Russo had originally planned for a film roughly twice as long, placing as much emphasis on the characters of the zombies as on the besieged humans, and commenting on what Russo referred to in later interviews as 'the tragedy of the hunter.' Many of the scenes were filmed, but the entire arc was eventually removed from the film for reasons of pacing, and also because 1960s audiences had difficulty relating to zombie characters presented in a complex and sympathetic light.
...also because 1960s audiences had difficulty relating to zombie characters presented in a complex and sympathetic light.
Heh.
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