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Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play” Comes to Otero College with Student-Driven Production
Description: The Otero Players present Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, a student-led spring production exploring how pop culture survives after civilization collapses. Featuring Otero College students and community members, this imaginative dark comedy blends music, theater, and storytelling across generations.
Otero Players present "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play" by Anne Washburn
The Otero Players are excited to announce their spring production of "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play" by Anne Washburn. The cast features a mixture of Otero College students, staff, and community members. Cast members include Bethany Bender, Everett Ediger, Jansen Ediger, Elizabeth Leonard, Brooklynn Romero, Joseph Six, and Owen Tillquist.
Anne Washburn's imaginative dark comedy – a play with music featuring songs by Washburn and Michael Friedman – propels us forward nearly a century, following a new civilization stumbling into its future.
After the collapse of civilization, a group of survivors share a campfire and begin to piece together the plot of The Simpsons episode "Cape Feare" entirely from memory. Seven years later, this and other snippets of pop culture (sitcom plots, commercials, jingles and pop songs) have become the live entertainment of a post-apocalyptic society, sincerely trying to hold onto its past. Seventy-five years later, these are the myths and legends from which new forms of performance are created.
A paean to live theater, and the resilience of Bart Simpson through the ages, Mr. Burns is an animated exploration of how the pop culture of one era might evolve into the mythology of another.
"Almost everything about this production was led and created by Otero College students," says director and Theatre Faculty member Heather Pidcock-Reed. "Students enrolled in Otero's Theatre Production II class took ownership of this production and designed and created all of the sets, lighting, music, costumes, and more." - Heather Pidcock-Reed
