Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
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ANDREW QUICK remembers being frightened by Walt Disney’s Fantasia as a child, specifically the part where Mickey Mouse takes an axe to an enchanted broom only for the pieces to keep coming back to life: “I found it quite terrifying, this little mouse having to deal with something that went on and on and on,” he says.
The memory seems apt. Quick is co-directing with Pete Brooks a live remix of George A Romero’s unrelenting zombie masterpiece Night of the Living Dead at Leeds Playhouse, which starts its run on January 24 and then goes on tour nationally.
“I’ve always been more interested in psychological horror rather than gore horror,” Quick says when we meet. “In Night of the Living Dead, there’s this sort of nuclear family down in the cellar and it must have been very shocking to audiences when the child dies and attacks the mother. That’s a real seminal horror moment for me.”
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