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All of us, at one point or another, have been in a group of people trying to put together a TV episode. MAN: Sideshow Bob takes Bart out of the hold and onto the deck and across….ĪNNE WASHBURN: And I think it seems, at first, very much like an activity which is very familiar to us. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Act 1, Scene 1.ĪNNE WASHBURN: We open on a group of people around a campfire and they’re really trying very hard to remember this episode of The Simpsons.

And a whole bunch of police, they come streaming out and -ĪNNE WASHBURN: And eventually decide to arrest him.īROOKE GLADSTONE: So now let’s turn to your work, Mr. Pinafore.ĪNNE WASHBURN: And finally, Bart is saved when the ship runs aground next to a -īROOKE GLADSTONE: a brothel. I shall send you to heaven before I send you to hell.ĪNNE WASHBURN: And there’s that climactic scene on the river with the performance of H.M.S. SIDESHOW BOB: Well, Bart, any last requests?īART: I was wondering if you could sing the entire score of the H.M.S. We've helped hundreds of people in danger.įBI AGENT 2: We have places your family can hide in peace and security, Cape Feare, Terror Lake, New Horrorfield, Screamville.ĪNNE WASHBURN: And, of course, Sideshow Bob shows up again and there’s a kind of a duel to the death, which gets very involved with Gilbert and Sullivan. SIDESHOW BOB: Bart Simpson? The spirited little scamp who twice foiled my evil schemes and sent me to this dank, urine-soaked hellhole?ĪNNE WASHBURN: And, finally, the family, to sort of escape him, goes away on a houseboat in the middle of a river.įBI AGENT 1: Don't worry, Mrs. LAWYER: If released, would you pose any threat to one Bart Simpson? In the episode, Bart was involved in putting Sideshow Bob away to prison for his various incredible misdeeds, and Sideshow Bob is sending him death threats.

Burns, A Post-Electric Play.ĬHORUS SINGING: Da-da, da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da…īROOKE GLADSTONE: It depicts a world devastated by a nuclear incident of some kind in which the survivors cope by retelling one episode of The Simpsons.īART, READING NOTE: 'I'm going to kill you.' ĪNNE WASHBURN: I was really curious to see what would happen to a story over time, under kind of extreme conditions.īROOKE GLADSTONE: And the story that you chose to follow across the decades is an episode from The Simpsons called “Cape Feare.”ĪNNE WASHBURN: It’s The Simpsons’ version of the Scorsese remake of the Robert Mitchum original. Playwright Anne Washburn tackled one aspect of that in her 2012 play, Mr. Marsha Gordon said she'd like to see a piece that reflects on the long-term impact of apocalypse. The Day After imagines a world reeling from nuclear attack but it’s a very particular world, situated in the Cold-War era of the early ‘80s. I’m Bob Garfield.īROOKE GLADSTONE: And I’m Brooke Gladstone.

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