Production History
The Society is dead-icated to continue to produce original works from emerging artists, collaborating with musicians, other hippies and artists to create bold new presentations of live art, and the preservation of the walking dead.
Brain Fucked (2008) You'll Never Take Me Alive (2009) Dead Air (2010)
DEAD AIR: The Final Broadcast
Philadelphia Fringe
At Dawson Street Pub and Connie's Ric Rac; September 3rd, 4th, 11th, and 18th
Presents
DEAD AIR
THE FINAL BROADCASTS OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival Sept 3-18 2010
A LIVE RADIO PLAY BROADCASTING THE FINAL WORDS OF CIVILIZAITON
AS THE POLLUTION REIGNS SUPREME AND THE DEAD RETURN TO LIFE!
In 1938, CBS Radio begins to play live dance music from the Columbia Theatre in New York
City. ORSON WELLES and the MERCURY THEATRE perform a little science fiction novel,
depicting the Martian landing and INVASION and ANNIHILATION of the HUMAN RACE.
The empty masses at home were so convinced with the energy ray beams and Orson’s young
and not fat baritone booming through the speakers, the terror consumed them in a mass chaos!
find the bootleg tapes of a new impending horror, right before our eyes. DEAD AIR: The Final
Broadcast of the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE is just that, those final last words lost in the infinite time
and space of the radio.
destiny is to destroy civilized man’s ability to live with the earth…”
--John Trudell
The bootlegs, tapes and screams come from across the nation. As the sludge seeps into the water
ways and the sky becomes black with smoke, the dead rise from the grave, right off of Kelly Drive
here in Philadelphia.
LIVE on the stage, the Society players, musicians, Grateful Dead DJ’s, dancers and radio
personalities are not safe from the growing trend of eating brains. Sound effects and cosmic waves
from the future to tell a grim tale of our impending doom.
You’ll Never Take Me Alive:
A Show in Four Acts
Dawson Street Pub Dramatic Society presents
You’ll Never Take Me Alive! A Show In Four Acts
At Dawson Street Pub, 100 Dawson Street Philadelphia, PA 19127
8:30 p.m. on Friday February 12th and Saturday February 13th
Sunday February 21st at 2:30 p.m.
Music by Stephen Rockwell and the DC MC’s The Eubonics
You’ll Never Take Me Alive! A Show In Four Acts
At Dawson Street Pub, 100 Dawson Street Philadelphia, PA 19127
8:30 p.m. on Friday February 12th and Saturday February 13th
Sunday February 21st at 2:30 p.m.
Music by Stephen Rockwell and the DC MC’s The Eubonics
The surviving members of the Zombies Ain’t Shit Co, those good looking punks who brought us performances for the 2008 Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival are back at Dawson’s featuring world premiere works. The Society, based out of Manayunk, is made up of local authors, actors, hippies, musicians, good beer enthusiasts, artists and the living dead. All are committed to presenting funny, bloody and raw theatre in the profound and intimate setting of the Dawson Street Pub. Voted one of the best bars in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Weekly, Dawson’s offers a great craft beer selection, a full lunch and dinner menu and is very conveniently located 5 minutes from the Wissahickon Train Station, as well as a major bus terminal.
You’ll Never Take Me Alive!, consists of four one act plays exposing the horror and supernatural that surround us every day. We're excited to premiere the following works: a dramatic reading of the sexy, stalker short story The Beholder by Sara Solt, Rigor Mortis: The Natural Male Enhancement by Ashley Dawn Gates is self-explanatory. From playwright Greg Day comes Trickster, based on a true story from the depths of a university museum and Are You Dead Yet, Darling?, which was produced as a staged reading at Painted Bride in 2008 directed by Josh Hitchens resurfaces at the Dawson. Together, these four pieces are surprising, amusing, and feature the bare bones talent from which true live art is born. These works include foul language, violence and are very sexy, starring local actors Sal Davila, Rena Dayton Moore, Stephen Rockwell and Elizabeth Corley as well as surprise guests.
You’ll Never Take Me Alive!, consists of four one act plays exposing the horror and supernatural that surround us every day. We're excited to premiere the following works: a dramatic reading of the sexy, stalker short story The Beholder by Sara Solt, Rigor Mortis: The Natural Male Enhancement by Ashley Dawn Gates is self-explanatory. From playwright Greg Day comes Trickster, based on a true story from the depths of a university museum and Are You Dead Yet, Darling?, which was produced as a staged reading at Painted Bride in 2008 directed by Josh Hitchens resurfaces at the Dawson. Together, these four pieces are surprising, amusing, and feature the bare bones talent from which true live art is born. These works include foul language, violence and are very sexy, starring local actors Sal Davila, Rena Dayton Moore, Stephen Rockwell and Elizabeth Corley as well as surprise guests.
Brain Fucked
Our First Philly Fringe Event! Brain Fucked! Saturday and Sunday night this week, Friday and Saturday Sept 12th & 13t. A new craze with attention and focus-enhancing drugs turns American college students into articulate, intelligent, sleep-deprived, brain-eating, flesh-eating, bloody orgy ZOMBIES! A must-see for fans of over-the-counter drugs and Living Dead aficionados!
The Zombie’s Ain’t Shit Theatre Company
Presents
Brain Fucked
Sept 6-13, 2008
Cast:
Sal Davila-Sal
Dave Hession-The Professor
Caitlin Venedam—The Girl
Directed by Gregory Day
Lights and sound by Antonia Cruz Ariaz
Editor’s Pick—Philadelphia Weekly Sept 3-9 2008
“A new focus enhancing drug turns American college students into hyper articulate zombies. Top marks for satire, Zombies Ain’t Shit Theatre, but if you wanna maintain the bell curve, next year we’ll ned to see something about a rabid pedo-pope being torn to shreds by a howling mob of Catholic priest-raped and crazed zombie-ape elderly female relatives who won’t vote for Obama because they got an “e-letter thing” telling them he’s a gay Muslim who hates Americ
