Description:
"When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin?...Mr. Burns has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas...with depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination." --The New York Times
"One of the most spectacularly original plays in recent memory." --Entertainment Weekly
An ode to live theater and the resilience of The Simpsons, Anne Washburn's apocalyptic comedy Mr. Burns is an imaginative exploration of how the culture of one generation can evolve into the mythology of the next. Also included in the collection are The Small, I Have Loved Strangers, and 10 Out of 12, all of which, together, develop a theme of destruction, from the personal to the city to civilization and, finally, to the destruction of form.
Review Quotes:
"Mr. Burns is both scary and sweet, funny but dead serious, unique and wonderfully theatrical."
--Richard Zoglin, TIME Magazine"An engaging and unexpectedly poignant tribute to all the mess and waste and hurt and boredom and bother and idiocy and passion and brilliance and devotion and love that goes into the premiere of any new play."
--Alexis Soloski, The Guardian"Fascinating and hilarious...With each of its three acts, Mr. Burns grows grander."
--Village Voice