Clydebuilt Theatre Company’s follow-up to their successful debut original musical, Vote Macbeth! from the 2022 and 2023 Fringes, The Real Housewives of The Zombie Apocalypse mixes the bitchy arguments and self-promotional soap-opera of trash TV in with a good dose of undead, end-of-the-world shenanigans. When a zombie outbreak makes it into the House, our seven Housewives must deal with each other (well… maybe try to limit the infighting) to potentially save themselves, their sponsorship deals and, if they have time, discover what is going on.
Complete with zombie outbreaks, bites, turns, cures, and conspiracy, the references to the classics of the genre most notably include The Evil Dead, with Sam Raimi getting name-checked several times and an appearance by Ash’s chainsaw hand. Reality TV and Sam Raimi are hardly known for their dramatic seriousness, and the show is exactly as campy as you’d expect from the title, with our seven housewives, presenters and zombies glorifying in the silliness, songs, transformations and deaths.
A fun and campy hour of living and dead mayhem, The Real Housewives of The Zombie Apocalypse delivers what it promises with strong characters, loving trashiness and a cunning mixture of lighting, masks and props to evoke the B-movie-est of apocalypses.
The Real Housewives of The Zombie Apocalypse is running at Greenside Riddles Court until the 16th August. Tickets can be found at: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/the-real-housewives-of-the-zombie-apocalypse
Reviewer: Oliver Giggins
Reviewed: 8th August 2025
North West End UK Rating:
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