The Sleeper Awakes

There will be thunder and voices, and lightning, and earthquakes. There will be hail and bloody fire. There will be “oh” and “ah” and “oh no”. There will be endless traffic jams and a flood of rotten things and smoke will bite your eyes. And finally the dead will raise from their graves. And they will eat the living until all the living turn to the walking dead that will forever look for peace but will not find it. They will want to die completely, but the true death will run away from them. And when there will be no living left, when there will be no souls left alive, the dead will go to sleep. But their peace won’t be long. Oh, no! Because soon they will wake not remembering that they are dead. They will go by their business. Over their heads, on the horizon a black hole the size of million suns will spread. And there will be no past and no future. There will be only here and now, and forever.

/From the libretto of “The Sleeper Awakes”/

The Sleeper Awakes is a horror story about the everlasting daily life of five immortal, brainless zombies who inhabit a small seaside village in a utopian post-apocalyptic world. It’s a poetic and diverting study of the society which possesses the momentum and self-organization of culture, without the narrative imagination that gathers common purpose. Our five zombiefriends do not coordinate to achieve concurrence, but calmly coexist in this culture gone awry.