Nicu’s Spoon Theatre Company will be staging a limited run of John Langan’s How the Day Runs Down this July. Langan adapted the play from his own story, which appeared in the September 2008 anthology The Living Dead, and then in the December 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
The stage production, directed by S. Barton-Farcas, will run for three weeks in the New York City theatre (located at 38 West 38th Street, 5th floor, New York, NY 10018), from Wednesday 6 July through Sunday 24 July. The official opening is Saturday 9 July. Shows will be Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 2PM. Tickets are $18, available on the web or by phone at 1-866-811-4111.
The theatre company describes the play thus: “Merge Our Town with Dawn of the Dead and you have a slight idea of what happens when a small town is overrun by the undead.
“Best described as Our Town with zombies, with Thornton Wilder’s Stage Manager moving between the different townspeople’s stories to describe not their mundane sorrows and joys, but their encounters with, and last stands against, the zombie horde. The juxtaposition of Wilder’s play, which is all about the continuity of communal life in the face of individual deaths, with a plot that posits that not only the town but all of humanity is doomed, makes for a heartbreaking story.”
Langan’s collection Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters was a nominee for the 2009 Stoker Award.