Actors Guild of Lexington’s artistic director, Eric Seale, is not usually impressed by zombie mashups like the recent Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter or Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
But when he came across the 2008 play William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead by John Heimbuch, he knew he had found a gem of a script that bucked the undead trend even as it seemed to play into it.
“It’s not a gimmick,” Seale says. “It’s a smart script, the plot’s great, the research is phenomenal.”
Closing out Actor’s Guild’s season, Land of the Dead, directed by Seale, opens this weekend and continues through May 19.
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