By Mike Dunham for Alaska Dispatch News, 10 April 2015
Different breeds of supernatural nemeses surge and ebb in popular culture. Aliens, ghosts and, most recently, vampires have each enjoyed waves of books, movies and television shows that have now receded from their peaks.
The epidemic of zombie-themed entertainment, however, has proven particularly infectious, morphing like a drug-resistant virus from the clunky stuff of B-grade horror flicks to cult cinema franchises to societal analysis. We’ve seen zombie politicians, zombie lovers, zombie strippers and — coming soon to a theater near you — a zombie moose. Zombie lit has been applied to the bones of giants like Jane Austen and Jean-Paul Sartre.
In “William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead: A True and Accurate Account of the 1599 Zombie Plague,” now being presented in a handsome production by the University of Alaska Anchorage Department of Theatre and Dance, playwright John Heimbuch tries to marry the undead with the immortal.
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