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A crudely drawn cartoon, with multiple outlines, filled in badly with yellow paint.
A crudely drawn cartoon, with multiple outlines, filled in badly with yellow paint.

Mr. Burns

A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn, Directed by Robert Icke

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5 Jun & 26 Jul 2014

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.

Following the phenomenal success of 1984, Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke directs Mr Burns in its European Premiere.

“When was the last time you met a new play that was so smart it made your head spin?… Mr Burns has arrived to leave you dizzy with the scope and dazzle of its ideas… with depths of feeling to match its breadth of imagination.” 
The New York Times

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CREATIVES

Director Robert Icke
Designer Tom Scutt
Composers Orlando Gough and Michael Henry
Lighting Philip Gladwell
Sound Tom Gibbons
Choreographer Ann Yee
Musical Directors Orlando Gough and Michael Henry
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Assistant Director Whitey Mosery

CAST

Demetri Goritsas
Adrian der Gregorian
Adey Grummet
Justine Mitchell
Wunmi Mosaku
Jenna Russell
Annabel Scholey
Michael Shaeffer