TCS Stage 1 Drama, "Night of the Living Dead"

TCS Performing Arts is proud to present:

"Night of the Living Dead!". Join us for a rollicking good time, as the Stage 1 Drama students reanimate George A. Romero's seminal work, adapted for the stage! Full of dark comedy, inspiring love stories, a multiverse, and...well...zombies! What's not to love?

Come with us on a journey(both literally and metaphorically)...and try not to scream!

A word from Josh Kerr-Director Senior Drama:

This performance was thoroughly rehearsed, and all scenes (filmed or live) had extensive risk assessments, planning, and staffing to ensure the safety of our students. TCS Performing Arts places the highest priority on the safety and wellbeing of our students, whilst engaging them in the most creative and exciting opportunities.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: This performance requires some movement on the part of the audience-for those who require a stationary performance experience please move to the Studio at TCS for a 6pm start

A word from our College Chaplain, David MacGillivray:

Endorsement for the use of the Chapel for ‘Night of the Living Dead – Live’

The Trinity College Chapel has always been a lively centre for the arts in the College. When it was built it was designed as a multi-purpose performing arts centre with a band and choir practice room across from the foyer, a ticket booth operating out of the kitchen and dressing rooms at the back of the stage area. As well as being a place for worship, reflection and spiritual focus, the Chapel has also hosted concerts, and music nights, ranging from classical to grunge bands, as well as theatrical performances from Shakespeare to absurdist satire. As the College has grown and dedicated performance spaces have been built, the need of the Chapel as a theatre has decreased, although its acoustics and intimate setting see that it is still regularly used for music nights and music assessments. I’m delighted that the Chapel will be one of the spaces used in the production of, ‘Night of the Living Dead – Live’. I’m sure some people might find it odd that the College Chaplain is happy to have zombies in our school Chapel. Christians have a rich history of telling, remembering and passing on important stories. Some stories have monsters in them but have important lessons. Some stories have no monsters, but have nothing of value about them. If we could not have, say, stories that depicted violence, we would lose the story of the Good Samaritan, told by Jesus. It’s not the violence then, or the monsters that is the issue, but the point of the story.

Stories that invite us to question our perspective, examine our cultural norms, to confront the demons in our society, and even laugh at them, are important stories indeed. And sometimes the best thing to do with the monsters that scare us the most is to laugh at them. A quote from Reformation Theologian Martin Luther which was the inscription in C.S Lewis’ ‘Screwtape Letters’ reads, “The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”

I do hope audiences have a great laugh as they race around the school being chased by zombies and that the use of our Chapel enriches the performance all the more.

Blessings,

Chaplain Dave

Head Chaplain, Trinity College.