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Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play
TheaterCNU
This modern piece explores the significance of popular culture and story telling in our modern lives by speculating on the significance of the Simpsons in the lives of the survivors of an apocalyptic event. Over the course of the show, the beloved cartoon goes through decades of evolution, starting as a part of mundane reality, transforming into therapeutic nostalgia, and ending as the basis for a "religious miracle."
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act I
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The recorded baritone voice of director Gregg Lloyd tells the audience what time period the show is moving into.
Narrations - Gregg Lloyd and Matthew Ishee
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Act I opens with a group of survivors making camp at night immediately after an apocalyptic event, with only the crickets for company.
Crickets - Matthew Ishee
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In the immediate wake of the apocalypse, a group of survivors confront an unknown rustling sound near their camp.
Rustling - Matthew Ishee
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In Act II (7 years after the apocalypse), a group of survivors defend their makeshift theatre as a shootout with unknown marauders breaks out.
Shootout - Matthew Ishee
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Act III takes place on a river at night, as people reenact a famous Simpsons episode 70 years after the apocalypse.
Stream - Matthew Ishee
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Mr. Burns has the Simpsons as prisoners. While tormenting Bart by threatening the boy's family, Burns hears the babbling of his baby sister, and moves to take her from him. The ringing of the bell signifying her death.
Death - Matthew Ishee
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At the end of this performance the actors reveal a great miracle: the return of electricity for the first time since the apocalyptic happening 70 years prior.
Electric Miracle - Matthew Ishee
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Director: Gregg Lloyd
Scenic Designer: Dave Shuhy
Costume Designer: Kathy Jaremski
Lighting Designer: Matthew Ishee
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