Mr. Burns and other plays /
An ode to live theater and the resilience of The Simpsons, Anne Washburn's apocalyptic comedy Mr. Burns, "even better than its hype" (New York Post), is an imaginative exploration of how the culture of one generation can evolve into the mythology of the next. Following an enthusiastic...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Theatre Communications Group,
[2017].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | An ode to live theater and the resilience of The Simpsons, Anne Washburn's apocalyptic comedy Mr. Burns, "even better than its hype" (New York Post), is an imaginative exploration of how the culture of one generation can evolve into the mythology of the next. Following an enthusiastic critical reception from New York critics for its world premiere, Mr. Burns will receive its London premiere in spring 2014. Also included in the collection are The Small, I Have Loved Strangers and Orestes, all of which, together, develop a theme of destruction, from the personal to the city to civilization and, finally, to the destruction of form. Anne Washburn's plays include The Internationalist, A Devil at Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small, and a transadaptation of Euripides's Orestes. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 340 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781559364812 1559364815 |