CRESTVIEW — The undead will rise tonight in the Pearl Tyner Auditorium as Crestview High School Theatre unleashes the stage version of George A. Romero’s classic horror flick, “Night of the Living Dead.”
Characters in the play, set in a remote Pennsylvania farmhouse, face the wrath of the dead risen from the grave.
Some students, like senior Michael Brooks, who plays Ben, also were featured in last week’s production of “Letters to Sala,” which presented challenges in addition to preparing for their “Living Dead” characters.
“I had to worry about this play while working on the other play,” Michael said. “I had a week to perfect my lines for ‘Sala’ but now I had this challenge. But I’m excited. I’m always up for acting.”
While humans cower in the farmhouse basement, bedraggled living dead from all walks of — um — life also prowl among audience members.
Lori Allen Ohm’s script is based, sometimes almost verbatim, on the 1968 film, which preceded today’s zombie craze by decades and received condemnation by conservative publications such as Reader’s Digest, which bemoaned its potential adverse effect on younger audience members.
Crestview High’s production offers two Halloween night performances: one at 7 p.m. and one at 9:30 p.m., allowing time to attend the Main Street Crestview Association’s Fall Festival — 1-6 p.m. downtown — and even get in some trick-or-treating — 6-8 p.m., officially, city-wide — before the early curtain.
WHAT: “Night of the Living Dead”
WHEN: 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. tonight
WHERE: Pearl Tyner Auditorium, Crestview High School
COST: $5
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