Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play

Mr. Burns - A Post-Electric Play
Spring 2018

Original music, homemade electricity, and a cast of 23 bring Anne Washburn's play to life at Bryn Mawr College.

Enter a theater lit only by fire, homemade batteries, and bicycle-powered lights, and experience the post-electric world. Mr. Burns takes us back to the origins of fireside storytelling, meditates on passion plays and pop culture, and imagines what the theater might one day become. Discover what might happen to our favorite stories if the lights went out. How would we cling to them? How do those stories help us connect and communicate? And how do they mutate over time?

Directed by Barrymore Award-winning actor, director, and Bryn Mawr College assistant professor of theater Catharine Slusar, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play closes the theater program’s 2017-18 season. Composer and musical director Mason Emmert (HC ’17) draws on centuries of music to create an original score rich with references to our collective memory.

Anne Washburn’s plays include The Internationalist, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, The Ladies, I Have Loved Strangers, Little Bunny Foo Foo, and a transadaptation of Euripides' Orestes. She has been the recipient of many awards and residencies and is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and Chochiqq.

Ticket Information and Performance Schedule

Performances, free and open to the public, will take place April 13-15 and April 19-21 at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College. Opening night is Friday, April 13.

Performance Schedule:
Friday, April 13, 8 p.m. Opening Night
Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 15, 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 19, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 20, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 21, 8 p.m.