The Hello and

welcome to a little bonus episode of the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. Now as many of you may have heard

particularly UK listeners out there there is currently running in London at the

Pleasant's Theatre a stage adaptation of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and it seemed

very fitting as we're right in the middle of a zombie series I thought it would be a

great opportunity for me to go and see the show and then chat to its director Benji

Sparing.

So very shortly you're going to hear my chat with Benji.

Now first of all just to give you a bit of background info, the show is of course based on the 1968 movie but it's got a little bit of a twist

and it's actually quite different in terms of what happens it takes the sort of basic premise and it takes some of the sort of archetype

characters and then it goes off in different directions, really interesting surprising directions.

Now people are expecting it to be a kind of straight

nihilistic horror in the way that the original movie was might get a bit of a

surprise because it's actually much more of a kind of broad comedy horror than anything else.

But there is tons of fun to be had.

I was sat with Jamie Graham in the splatter zone of the audience, which meant that we were both

absolutely covered from head to toe in blood by the end and it was a really

really fun night. So I got the chance to sit down and chat to its director

Benji Sparing about how he decided to stage the show about its influences

about its relationship with the original movie and about his relationship with the horror genre.

So here we go. Here is my chat with Director Benji Sparing.

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