Excellent! Mermaid Players Reimagine 'The Simpsons'
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is presented by the Mermaid Players. Photo by Pierce Bounds '71.
Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Musical Play
It's the apocalypse! (D'oh!) What do we do now?
Don't have a cow, man: For the survivors in "Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Musical Play," telling and retelling an episode of The Simpsons is an excellent way to begin.
The Mermaid Players will present four performances of this darkly comic play, Oct. 12-13 and Oct. 15-16. All shows begin at 8 p.m. in Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building. Tickets are $7, or $5 with a student ID. They are available for purchase through the Dickinson box office.
The production details the story of survivors of a catastrophic destruction of the electrical grid. As they huddle together, the characters seek comfort in recalling their favorite episode of The Simpsons. Decades later, the episode (in altered form) has become a staple of a touring theatre company in a post-electric world that recalls the glory days of a phenomenon of the past called “television.” Seventy-five years into the future, Bart, Homer and, of course, Mr. Burns, have become mythic figures, whose story has grown to reflect a world both different from and similar to our wired world of today.
This comedy by Anne Washburn, featuring an inventive score by the late Michael Friedman (Bloody Andrew Jackson), dramatizes how the stories we tell reflect who we have been and shape who we become.
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Published October 12, 2018