not your average zombie apocalypse

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
By Richard Gremel

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
By Richard Gremel

SYNOPSIS: After a science fair project goes awry, zombies begin to take
over Eastdale High. There are zombies in math, gym, dance, even drama class,
and all of them are hungry for brains. Now it is up to five students (the nerd,
the jock, the popular girl, the rebel, and the social outcast) to work together,
come up with a cure, and find a way to survive. The play includes teenage

romance, hungry zombies, and a variety of hilarious characters. Warning: This
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is NOT your average zombie apocalypse!
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
(9-10 females, 9 males, 8-14 either, 1-30+O extras;
gender flexible, doubling possible)
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MARTIN “MARTY” (m) ............................. The Nerd. (203 lines)
CHETT (m) ............................................... .... The Rebel. (119 lines)
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RONNIE (m) ................................................. The Jock. (140 lines)
MACY (f)...................................................... Miss Popular. (194 lines)
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WILLOW (f) ................................................. The Emo/Social Outcast.
(78 lines)
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MS. STACEY (f) .......................................... The Chemistry Teacher.
(22 lines)

BRAD (m) ..........O........................................... He puts the “dumb” in dumb-
jock. (43 lines)
TINA (f) ..D...................................................... (26 lines)
BETH (f) ....................................................... (15 lines)
GLADYS (f) ................................................. (15 lines)
HUBERT (m) ................................................ (18 lines)
GREGORY (m) ............................................ (18 lines)
SIMON (m) ................................................... (20 lines)
STUDENT 1 (f/m) ........................................ (1 line)
STUDENT 2 (f/m) ........................................ (1 line)
STUDENT 3 (f/m) ........................................ (5 lines)
STUDENT 4 (f/m) ........................................ (5 lines)
STUDENT 5 (f/m) ........................................ (Non-speaking)
HALL MONITOR (f/m) ............................... (7 lines)
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DRAMA TEACHER (f/m) ........................... (8 lines)
GYM TEACHER (f/m) ................................. (10 lines)
MATH TEACHER (f/m) .............................. (5 lines)
DANCE TEACHER (f/m) ............................ (5 lines)
BILLY (m) .................................................... (4 lines)
SOPHIE (f).................................................... (1 line)
KAREN (f) .................................................... The Zombie Girl. (3 lines)
BOY (m) ....................................................... (4 lines)
GIRL (f) ........................................................ (3 lines)
POLICE OPERATOR (f/m) ......................... (15 lines) Y
SARGE (f/m) ................................................ (9 lines)
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PIZZA GUY (f/m) ........................................ (11 lines)
PRINCIPAL (f/m) ......................................... (2 lines)
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ZOMBIE 1 (f/m) ........................................... (4 lines)
FELICITY JENKINS (f) ............................... (1 line)
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EXTRAS:

ZOMBIES (f/m), STUDENTS (f/mT)

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ALL LINE COUNTS ARE APPROXIMATE

DOUNBLING SUGGESTIONS

Students 1-5 could also double as the teachers and principal or as Sophie,
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Billy, Boy, Girl, Police Operator and Sarge. Karen the Zombie Girl can also
double as Zombie 1. Felicity Jenkins could double with one of the students or
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teachers.

COSTUMES

The costumes of each character should suggest the stereotype within the
character. For example, Marty is a stereotypical nerd, Macy is a stereotypical
popular girl, cheerleader type, and the teachers’ stereotypes follow the subject
they teach. Each costume should suggest their stereotype to the audience. We
should know it’s the drama teacher just by looking at him/her. The other
students can wear common school clothes. Zombie costumes can just be torn
shirts and pants.
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SETTING

The setting for the play is several rooms and the hallway of Eastdale High (or
the name of your school). The stage can be as elaborate or simple as desired.
If you want a larger set, split the stage into three locations. Two areas would
serve as the various classrooms stage right and stage left, and a hallway would
split the center. Or the set can be as simple as just a couple door flats with
props and set pieces to show the different classroom locations.

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SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

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ACT ONE
SCENE 1: THE CHEMISTRY CLASS
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SCENE 1a: ...AGAIN
SCENE 2: THE CHEMISTRY CLASS, A FEW DAYS EARLIER
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SCENE 3: THE HALLWAY, AFTER CLASS
SCENE 4: THE SCIENCE LAB, LATER THAT DAY

SCENE 5: THE HALLWAY, MTINUTES LATER
SCENE 6: THE SCIENCE LAB, THE NEXT MORNING
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INTERMISSION
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ACT TWO

SCENE 1: THE SCHOOL, ONE ZOMBIE OUTBREAK LATER
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SCENE 2: THE DRAMA CLASS
SCENE 3: THE GYM CLASS
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SCENE 4: MATH CLASS
SCENE 5: DANCE CLASS
SCENE 6: THE HALLWAY
SCENE 7: OUTSIDE
SCENE 8: THE LIBRARY
SCENE 9: THE ASSEMBLY
SCENE 10: BACK AT THE LIBRARY
SCENE 11: THE HALLWAY
SCENE 12: BACK AT THE LIBRARY
SCENE 13: THE CHEMISTRY CLASS
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PRODUCTION NOTES

Pace plays an important role in this show. Regardless of how you choose to
stage the performance, the scene changes should be quick so that the show
maintains a fast pace. In one production, comedic school announcements were
played while changing from one classroom to the next. This allowed the
audience to listen and react, even when the scene changes were taking place.
This result was a feeling of continuous pace throughout the many scene
changes at the beginning of Act Two.
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Zombies should move, sound, and look like zombies but still maintain some
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human traits. Zombies should also not be gory and covered with blood. Think
less blood and guts and more mess and slobber.
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The characters of the play should be over-the-top exaggerations of the
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stereotype. The play should not be portrayed as serious, like most zombie
apocalypse plays, movies, and TV shows. Instead, it should be campy and

fun. Play up the humor in the dramaticT tension.

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NOTE: This play contains suggestions for the performance of a musical work
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(either in part or in whole). Heuer Publishing LLC has not obtained
performing rights of these works. The direction of such works is only a

playwright's suggestion, and the play producer should obtain such
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permissions on their own.

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PRODUCTION HISTORY

Not Your Average Zombie Apocalypse had its world premiere at Liberty
High School in Peoria, AZ in 2015 under the direction of Jessica Holt
with the following cast:

MARTY ............................................................. .Nolan Murphy
CHETT ................................................................... Jack Taylor
RONNIE ................................................................. Andy Barga
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MACY ............................................................. Lindsey Bledsoe
WILLOW ............................................................... Tori Powell
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MS. STACEY ..................................................... Jackie Vincent
BRAD .................................................................. Phisher Ritter
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TINA ..................................................................... Stacie Lowe
BETH ........................................................... Marissa Seabreeze
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GLADYS ................................................................. Zoe Crowe
HUBERT ........................................................ Anthony Rozzen

GREGORY ................................T............................. Jacob Fuchs
SIMON .......................................................... Joshua Schwirian
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STUDENT 1/GYM TEACHER ...................... Rachel Esquibel
STUDENT 2 ........................................................... Tiffany Rial
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STUDENT 3 ...................................................... Mandy Collins
STUDENT 4 ..................................................... Paige Anderson

HALL MONITOR ................................................. Searra Foote
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DRAMA TEACHER ................................... Luke Chamberlain
MATH TEACHER ......................................... Katie Micnhimer
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DANCE TEACHER ............................................. Rithika Arya
BILLY ................................................................... Ben Kilborn
SOPHIE ................................................................... Jessi Kissel
KAREN ................................................................... Sam Flores
POLICE Operator ................................................. Paige Seeger
SARGE ................................................................ Steve Estrada
PIZZA GUY ........................................................ Randy Wendt
PRINCIPAL ................................................... Jessica Convento

ZOMBIES: Christa Carpenter, Alex King, Ally Smith, Daryk Allison,
Leia Jessing, Sierra Aday, Kalli Robertson, Whitney Whitlock, Joanne
Anderson, Rachel Johnson, Athena Ankrah, Dominick Leoni
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ACT ONE, SCENE 1
THE CHEMISTRY CLASS

AT RISE: The scene opens on MARTY and MACY in the chemistry
classroom. They are holding each other and screaming while a horde
of zombies are trying to break in.

MARTY: (Screaming.) This is the end!

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MACY screams.

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This is it!

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MACY screams.

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We are zombie food for sure!

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MACY: (Screaming/crying.) I don’t want to be zombie dinner!
MARTY: And to think, I’m going to die without ever being kissed.
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MACY no response.

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I said, “I’m going to die without ever being kissed.”

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MACY no response.

It would be great if someone would kiss me before I die.
MACY: Oh, you mean me?
MARTY: Well, I don’t want to kiss a zombie.
MACY: Fine.
MARTY: Really?!
MACY: Sure, I mean, no one should die without ever being kissed.
MARTY: Alright! (He goes to kiss her.)
MACY: Wait. (She stops him by putting her hand to his face. Then
she pulls lipstick out of her purse and puts it on.) Okay, let's do this.
(She goes to kiss him.)
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MARTY: Wait. (He puts his hand up and stops her. He pulls breath
spray out of his pocket and sprays his mouth.) Okay let's do this.

They go to kiss, but right when their lips are about to meet, the zombies
break in and...

FREEZE!

MACY and ZOMBIES freeze and MARTY steps forward to addre ss the
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audience.

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That was close. (Beat.) I mean my kiss with Macy, not the zombie
attack. Wait, that gives me an idea.
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He goes back to kiss MACY who is frozen in a kissy pose, but right
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when he goes to kiss her she slaps him.

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MACY: I don’t think so.
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MARTY: But you were just about to kiss me.
MACY: That was before I knew you could just yell “freeze” and get the
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zombie attack to stop. If you can stop the zombies, then there is no
reason to kiss you.

MARTY: But you can’t just stop the zombies that way.
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MACY: You just did.
MARTY: I did that because the guy who is writing this play is using the
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“freeze” as a device to allow me to narrate the story and introduce
how this all happened. It’s kind of like those film noir movies. But,
once we go back to the beginning of when this all started, we won’t
be able to just yell “freeze” again and have the zombies stop.
MACY: Well, then stop trying to kiss me and do what the writer
intended.
MARTY: Sorry. Fine. Let’s take it back guys. We’ll try it again from
the top.

The ZOMBIES go back outside the classroom and shut the door and
MARTY and MACY reset in their opening embrace. The lights go black
and the play begins again.
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ACT ONE, SCENE 1a
...AGAIN

AT RISE: The scene opens on MARTY and MACY in the chemistry
classroom. They are holding each other and screaming while a horde
of zombies are trying to break in.

MARTY: (Screaming.) This is the end!

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MACY screams.

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This is it!

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MACY screams.

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We are zombie food for sure!

MACY screams. T

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MACY: (Screaming/crying.) I don’t want to be zombie dinner.
MARTY: And to think, I’m going to die without ever being kissed.
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MACY no response.

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I said, “I’m going to die without ever being kissed.

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MACY no response.

It would be great if someone would kiss me before I die.
MACY: Oh, you mean me?
MARTY: Well, I don’t want to kiss a zombie.
MACY: Fine.
MARTY: Really?!
MACY: Sure, I mean, no one should die without ever being kissed.
MARTY: Alright! (He goes to kiss her.)
MACY: Wait. (She stops him by putting her hand to his face. Then
she pulls a lipstick out of her purse and puts it on.) Okay, let's do
this. (She goes to kiss him.)
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MARTY: Wait. (He puts his hand up and stops her. He pulls breath
spray out of his pocket and sprays his mouth.) Okay let's do this.

They go to kiss, but right when their lips are about to meet the zombies
break in and...

FREEZE!

MACY and ZOMBIES freeze and MARTY steps forward to addre ss the
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audience.

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This does not look good for us, does it? You are probably sitting
there wondering how we got ourselves into this scary situation. I
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mean, a zombie apocalypse doesn’t just happen every day, right?
Well, it all started a few days ago when our chemistry teacher, Miss
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Stacey, announced that we would be competing in the state science
fair.

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BLACKOUT.
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ACT ONE, SCENE 2
CHEMISTRY CLASS, A FEW DAYS EARLIER

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SETTING: The chemistry classroom, a few days earlier.
AT RISE: MACY and BRAD sit on desks listening to RONNIE. TINA,
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BETH, GLADYS and extras are gathered around RONNIE as well.
CHETT sits in another desk, writing on it with a marker. WILLOW sits
in the back of the room with her head down. Students enter the
classroom sporadically during the following dialogue.

RONNIE: It was 4th and 10 with three seconds left on the clock and we
were down by four. I knew I had to throw a touchdown, or we would
lose the game and our chance at a State Championship would be
lost.
GIRLS: Wow.
RONNIE: But when the ball was hiked, two guys came blitzing from
each side. I stepped back and spotted Brad, open down field.