A RECREATION of a horror classic is coming to Theatr Clwyd.

Imitating the dog, one of the UK’s most original and innovative theatre companies, will join forces with Leeds Playhouse to recreate a unique shot-for-shot stage recreation of George A. Romero’s classic 1968 zombie movie – Night of The Living Dead™.

Directed by imitating the dog’s co-artistic directors Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks, Night of The Living Dead ™ will be performed at Theatr Clwyd on February 28 and 29.

In 1968, Night of the Living Dead started out as a low-budget independent horror movie telling the story of seven strangers taking refuge from flesh eating ghouls in an isolated farmhouse.

Fifty years on, seven performers enter the stage armed with cameras, a box of props and a rail of costumes.

Can they recreate the ground-breaking film, shot-for-shot before the audience, using whatever they can lay their hands on?

With 1,076 edits in 95 minutes, it's a heroic struggle. Success will require wit, skill and ingenuity and is by no means guaranteed.

George A. Romero’s original was an apocalyptic vision of paranoia, the breakdown of community and the end of the American dream.

In their new stage production, masters of digital theatre, imitating the dog create a love-song to the original 1960s film, a remaking and remixing which attempts to understand the past in order not to have to repeat it.

Their version is in turns humorous, terrifying, thrilling, thought-provoking and joyous. Above all, in the retelling it becomes a searing parable for our own complex times.

Andrew Quick, co-director and artistic director of imitating the dog, said: “Looking at the state of the world today it seems so appropriate that we are going back to this seminal story, the original zombie movie.

"Rehearsals have been great fun so far and it’s amazing how scary and relevant Romero’s 60s vision still seems.”

Tickets, priced from £10, are available from the Theatr Clwyd Box Office on 01352 344101 or at www.theatrclwyd.com.