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ambitions, good intentions not quite realized in </SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Maybe it’s our new-found awareness that
</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">pollution
and over-consumption are driving the planet to ruin.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps it’s our increasing dependence
on technology or the tension generated by the current state of global
politics</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-ansi-language: en">.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there’s been a rash of
post-apocalyptic fiction in recent years, from </SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“The Hunger Games” trilogy and “The Maze Runner” to “The
Walking Dead” and “Falling Skies.”</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">None are as </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">funny as Anne
Washburn's<SPAN class=apple-converted-space> wild, three-act dystopian comedy
“</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric
Play,” which opened at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C. in
2012, had an Off-Broadway run in 2013, and is getting its regional premiere at
Cleveland Public Theatre</SPAN></FONT><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">While the play is
poignantly wrought and addresses </FONT></SPAN><FONT
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fafafa">serious, </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">big picture issues
like the nature of human resilience, the importance of community, and the power
of storytelling to sustain humanity and salvage culture, “The Simpsons” – TV’s
longest-running sitcom – serves as its source material, which adds a delicious,
head-shaking absurdity to the entire affair.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Some degree of Simpsons literacy, a
working knowledge of the 1991 Martin Scorsese film “Cape Fear” on which the
Simpsons episode that drives this play is based,<SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> </SPAN>and a passing familiarity with
contemporary pop music are certainly a plus when watching this show, though they
are not required. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What is required is stamina, for this
clever play is given a rather plodding production.</FONT><SPAN
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