The Scots are somehow doing Romeo & Juliette as a zombie play, which makes sense because teens are tribalistic morons. But why not Macbeth? I have a bunch of writing on Hamlet as the ultimate zombie play. Think about it, he's stuck between the ghost of his father, a murderous, tretcherous, letcherous new dad faking madness to reject the logic the world foists upon him, he drives his girlfriend to madness and suicide, has to deal with Polonius, and everybody ends up dead. It's a tour-de-force of cultural entropy which has lead to our current Zombie Apocolypse! Don't bother telling it's not real, it's on TV. You aren't real, TV talk-person.
Why all these zombie versions? Zombies are the most potent negatively-defined cultural symbols we have of humans. That's why.
Link to a story about the Edinburgh Film Festival:
http://www.jacksonville.com/entertainment/2009-06-14/story/am_stir_shakespeare_zombies_guaranteed_hit
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