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Director ANDREW QUICK talks to Neil Mudd about why now's the right moment to produce a live remix of the film Night of the Living Dead on stage
REEL-TIME PRODUCTION: Night of the Living Dead Remix
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
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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