Reading the bibliography thread and then stumbled across this. Anyone happen to see this when it was playing in NY/Washington?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27792381
Mr Burns, just opened at London’s Almeida Theatre, is set in an America without electricity after the collapse of civilisation.
The play begins with several survivors sitting around a campfire trying to recall their favourite episode of The Simpsons.
Washburn cites two two major influences on the play. The more obvious one is Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic 1978 novel The Stand.