Bloomberg: “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” is that rarest of comedies: funniest if you already know the punch lines.
Anne Washburn’s eccentric post-Apocalypse parable, at Playwrights Horizons, examines perseverance in catastrophe and, at times late in the play, demands it of the audience.
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Well I must say I think the concept of the show is pretty brilliant. It's tying in contemporary references of today with ideas from a long time ago. I like that there are parallels in the play and in our historical world, like forms of theatre bringing people out of the dark ages. I also enjoy that it comments on the possibility of our world as we know it coming to an end. With the technology and warfare going on now, we could be alot closer to some sort of dark time than we might think, and I appreciate this playwright calling that to mind. In a sense this play could be a good reminder for all about one of theatre's many great purposes, like acting as an escape for those who have suffered.
This is so freaking weird. I mean, I always hear of the cartoons on ice, but this is something totally different.
I think that the choice of cartoon is interesting because to be honest I think the show is a little out date with audiences, it is defiantly not as popular as say Family Guy or South Park at this point in time. I wonder how many people are going to want to come to see this. Then again I agree with Jacquelyn in that a post-apocalyptic Simpsons sounds like something I may just want to see.
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