San Francisco’s Premier Non-Profit Theatre Company announced their 2014-2015 season a while back, but I missed it.
So I’m just finding out about the best idea ever for a play. Presenting “Mr. Burns – A Post Electric Play”
“A.C.T. presents the West Coast debut of the outrageous and enthusiastically acclaimed new comedy by Bay Area–born playwright Anne Washburn. The story begins in a dark dystopia, where a group of surviving strangers bond by recreating from memory an episode of The Simpsons. As the story moves decades later, their recollection becomes an almost religious-like fable, elaborately staged for adoring crowds through live theater and opera. A marvelously meta tribute to the pop-culture phenomenon The Simpsons and a paean to the power of storytelling, Mr. Burns is an ingenious exploration of how we share recollection, memory, and truth.”
There’s no way this can’t be great.
“One of the Top Ten Plays of 2013. Downright brilliant”—The New York Times
“Wonderfully clever”—The Wall Street Journal
See you there!
