It's the end of everything in contemporary America. A future without power. But what will survive?
Mr Burns asks how the stories we tell make us the people we are, explodes the boundaries between pop and high culture and, when society has crumbled, imagines the future for America's most famous family.
"Washburn's play is pretty out there in many respects, but each scenario is beautifully realised, and it presents a compelling query: faced with uncertainty, would we salvage what's 'important' for the human race? Or what comforts us? And is there really a difference?…the bold vistas of Washburn's imagination are thrillingly provocative in themselves…its message is ultimately a comforting one: just like cockroaches and Twinkies, theatre and stories will survive the end of days, no matter how strangely."Time Out
"Anne Washburn's downright brilliant Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas."The New York Times
"The play is both scary and sweet, funny but dead serious, unique and wonderfully theatrical."TIME Magazine
"Get in line ASAP. This bizarre, funny, bleak, wonderful show is even better than its hype."New York Post
"Gradually this absurd, unreal performance comes to encapsulate not just the old, now-mythical way of life but also our own. The intellectual fascination of the material meshes with emotional significance on an instinctual level."Financial Times
"If you're a fan of The Simpsons with an appetite for risk-taking theatre, its strangeness will be irresistible."Evening Standard