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Maul of the Dead

  • Mitch Brian
  • Full Length Play, Melodrama, Comedy, 1970s
  • 5M, 4F
  • ISBN: MH3

"A whirlwind of zombie mayhem."

Kansas City Star

  • Full Length Play
  • Melodrama, Comedy
  • 60 minutes

  • Time Period: 1970s
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Area Staging

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
It's 1978 and zombies in polyester walk the earth. A pair of SWAT officers take refuge with a perfume counter girl in a zombie-infested shopping mall. Hiding out in JC Penney's, they're soon joined by a TV weather girl, her traffic reporter beau, and a suburban punk chick who is still in love with the boy from the record store... now a zombie!

As ravenous hoards attack the frail security gate separating the living from the walking dead, the survivors make a desperate bid for weapons and supplies, eventually forming a makeshift family amidst the consumer trappings of the 1970s. But paradise is short-lived as betrayal, false identities and infection from a zombie bite threaten the belief that "there's got to be a morning after."

Danger lurks behind every mannequin in a play that blends horror, satire and melodrama with punk rock and disco music into "a whirlwind of zombie mayhem." (Kansas City Star

REVIEWS:

"A likable, lunatic spree through horror cliches, pop-culture gags... it's great fun."

Pitch Weekly

"A whirlwind of zombie mayhem."

Kansas City Star

  • Casting: 5M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras
  • Casting Notes: 10 to 25 or more zombies.

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It's 1978 and zombies in polyester walk the earth. A pair of SWAT officers take refuge with a perfume counter girl in a zombie-infested shopping mall. Hiding out in JC Penney's, they're soon joined by a TV weather girl, her traffic reporter beau, and a suburban punk chick who is still in love with the boy from the record store e now a zombie! As ravenous hoards attack the frail security gate separating the living from the walking dead, the survivors make a desperate bid for weapons and supplies, eventually forming a makeshift family amidst the consumer trappings of the 1970s. But paradise is short-lived as betrayal, false identities and infection from a zombie bite threaten the belief that there's got to be a morning after. Danger lurks behind every mannequin in a play that blends horror, satire and melodrama with punk rock and disco music into a whirlwind of zombie mayhem. (Kansas City Star) Area staging. Approximate running time: 1 hour.

$19.95