Pride and Prejudice, now with hot zombie action!

After seeing the closing performance of Pride and Prejudice at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater on Sunday, I felt a bit empty.

It was brilliant performance, to be sure—perhaps one of the theater’s best. No, it wasn’t The Rep’s fault. Rather, it was Jane Austen who was lacking. Her work is just so, I don’t know how to put it… Vacant? Trifling?

Then I stumbled across this book today, and all of life became clear—zombies!

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance — Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

Everything is better with zombies. Everything. Jane Austen especially.

I don’t know how the Janeites are taking it, but I will be anxiously awaiting this book’s April 8 release. And although it’s too late for The Rep’s Pride, maybe Artistic Director Joseph Hanreddy would be willing to throw a few zombies into Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.

Russian revolutionaries + zombies = insta-classic!

OK, maybe not. Still, an excerpt of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies along with an interview of author Seth Grahame-Smith is available at National Public Radio.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.