{"id":5315,"date":"2016-07-21T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2016-07-21T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:56:10","slug":"mr-burns-a-post-electric-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2016\/07\/21\/mr-burns-a-post-electric-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So nothing like starting the new season of theatre productions with a challenge! Totally about America&#8217;s most famous tv family, but without directly showing them.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the brief plot: Shortly after an unspecified apocalyptic event, a group of survivors gather together and begin to attempt to recount the episode &#8220;Cape Feare&#8221; of the television show <i>The Simpsons<\/i>. The second act picks up with the same group seven years later, who have now formed a theatrical troupe that specializes in performing <i>Simpsons<\/i> episodes, with commercials and all. The final act is set an additional 75 years in the future. The same episode of <i>the Simpsons<\/i>, now a familiar mythos, has been reworked into a musical pageant, with the story, characters, and morals repurposed to fit the artistic and dramatic needs of a culture still reeling from destruction of civilization and the near-extinction of humanity decades earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my creative process:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5326\" src=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center.jpg\" alt=\"27.5x43_Student_Center\" width=\"200\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center.jpg 655w, http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5327\" src=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center2.jpg\" alt=\"27.5x43_Student_Center#2\" width=\"200\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center2.jpg 655w, http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/27.5x43_Student_Center2-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is the final design for <em>Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/MrBurnsPoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5316\" src=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/MrBurnsPoster.jpg\" alt=\"MrBurnsPoster\" width=\"414\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/MrBurnsPoster.jpg 614w, http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/files\/2016\/07\/MrBurnsPoster-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So nothing like starting the new season of theatre productions with a challenge! Totally about America&#8217;s most famous tv family, but without directly showing them. Here is the brief plot: Shortly after an unspecified apocalyptic event, a group of survivors gather together and begin to attempt to recount the episode &#8220;Cape Feare&#8221; of the television &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/2016\/07\/21\/mr-burns-a-post-electric-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/art.bradley.edu\/will\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}