(Narrated by a single voice, the spot starts out like a contemporary movie trailer, before transitioning into a theatrical performance.)
VOICE-OVER:
WARM BODIES is a rom-com about the unlikely love story between a flesh-eating zombie guy and an earthling lady.
Set in the post-apocalyptic aftermath of a terrible plague, they belong to different worlds. Until one day, the zombie squire happens upon the fair maiden and is all at once smitten.
Alas! A fight breaks out between the rivalling factions.
“Come yonder with me,” he cries.
The young gentlewoman stirs beneath her corset. But gall bitter is the blood betweenth their houses.
“Their union ‘tis folly.” sayeth someone.
The fair maiden plays trickery on death. But woe the trickery tricketh the sire himself.
“Fie on thee, confound’d garboil!” he spilleth his own blood. To which the maiden waketh and spilleth her bloodesth tooeth.
Hark, the sobbery doth begineth. And so endeth ROMEO AND JULIET.
The Singapore Repertory Theatre. Where the original stories are told.