Field Trip Feb 27th

Post date: Feb 06, 2015 5:52:54 PM

SLAM will be going to the ACT theater in San Francisco on Feb. 27 to see Mr. Burns.

Mr. Burns is a post-apocalyptic comedy based on The Simpsons.

“Downright brilliant! When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin?”

—New York Times

“Get in line ASAP! This bizarre, funny, bleak, wonderful show is even better than its hype. One of the most affecting tributes to theater and tenacity you’re likely to see all year.” —New York Post

“The play is both scary and sweet, funny but dead serious, unique and wonderfully theatrical.” —Time magazine

“Hilarious! Hypnotic, sly and fiendishly insinuating . . . [it] does the improbable: It makes the end of civilization seem like the perfect time to create glowing objects of wonder and beauty.” —Time Out New York

“Washburn reminds us of the ways stories survive and adapt with us, how their specifics and lessons change to the society that tells them, how their meaning is inconstant but our need for that meaning, whatever it happens to be at a given time, is pure and permanent. From hell, Mr. Burns sends us to heaven.” —Village Voice

In a post-apocalyptic Northern California, a group of strangers bond by recreating the infamous “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons. From this fortuitous meeting, distant memories of “Marge” and “Homer” become the basis for shaping a new society as the play travels decades into the future. An outrageous and enthusiastically acclaimed new comedy by Anne Washburn, Mr. Burns, a post-electric play is both a marvelous meta-tribute to the iconic first-family of contemporary pop-culture and a celebration of the power of generational storytelling. A sold-out success in New York, critics exclaimed that “Mr. Burns, a post-electric play has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas. Ms. Washburn makes us appreciate anew the profound value of storytelling in and of itself, and makes a case for theater as the most glorious and durable storyteller of all.” (New York Times)

New to The Simpsons? Want to refresh yourself on the world of Springfield? Check out these Top-Ten Facts—including why Marge’s hair is so tall, and what Bart’s middle name is (and why his name is Bart!). Click here to watch.