Over the past few weeks, I have thought of little else than the upcoming, month-long Philadelphia event; "Zombiedelphia" created by "Plays & Players."

This month-long event will include several special events surrounding the, dare I say, fictional zombie plague that took place in 1599 London, England. In honor of those "lost" in the plague, Play's and Players will be hosting a Zombie restaurant crawl, which, will offer discounts to anyone who is comes disguised or diseased as a zombie.

Need help finding your zombie costume? Well you can start with this months “Free Zombie Makeup Workshop,” sponsored by Philadelphia Theatrical supply. From now until the end of March, 1714 Delancey Place is where you can start looking more like the rest of the infected. A few pictures on the Zombiedelphia website really answer any questions as to what the workshop can do.

But what many are really looking forward to is the production of "Shakespeare's Land of the Dead," a reenactment of the 1599 tragedy when the zombie virus took hold of London's population. If you thought that Superman was the only one in tights fighting evil, guess again.

Tickets are available at http://playsandplayers.tix.com/Schedule.asp?ActCode=32530. Be sure to checkout the midnight showing which is predicted to have a "rocky horror" style, meaning and loud crowds in costume, possibly resembling zombies better than the actors on stage.

In celebration of Zombiedelphia month, Plays & Players has created a blog on WordPress that talks about features events and interview with the creator of “Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead,” John Heimbuch. It was in this interview that I realized the genius of what this play will entail. Heimbuch leaves this quote as a preview to the play,

“As flesh transformed Lycaon into raging beast, These dead now awaken for one final feast. Their bite brings affliction, wounds that won’t heal. So sever their necks with thy good English steel.”

Also to celebrate Zombiedelphia, a whole series of videos have been posted to prepare Philly for what they should expect during the month of March. One video resembling a comic version a History Channel documentary, tells the history of that fateful day when the living dead took to the streets and even invaded the globe. You can find that video here.

So much hype and so little to wait, I can barely sit in my chair when I think of the events this upcoming month.

So board up your windows and keep your chainsaw handy or just join in on the fun. But if at some point you see an overly exhausted classmate muttering to himself, if you suddenly see someone run through a busy sidewalk with a worried look on their face, or even if you seem to be sleeping all of the time but you just can’t shake that tired feeling, you’ll know that the virus has finally hit Zombiedelphia.