Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play

When the power goes out, what stories survive? In Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, A Post‑Electric Play, the nuclear apocalypse has descended and all one group of survivors can do is huddle around a campfire and try to remember a The Simpsons episode. Seven years later, they’re a theatre troupe; commercial jingles have become parables and pop songs have become hymns. Seventy-five years later, civilization has been rebuilt and the “fictional” story, a wrongly-remembered Simpsons episode, has become, through the great game of intergenerational telephone, the founding myth of the new world. Oh, and Act III is a musical.

Mr. Burns, a post-electric play by Anne Washburn Score by Michael Friedman Lyrics by Anne Washburn

MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

The Dramat’s Spring Ex will be performed on the Yale University Theatre Stage between Feb 18-20th, 2027. To learn more about the Dramat, please visit https://www.yaledramat.org/about.