The ensemble cast of Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play play a company of actors re-telling The Simpson's "Cape Feare" Photo: Sarah Walker How well do remember the episode of The Simpsons where Sideshow Bob gets out of jail and tries to murder Bart? If you needed to tell the story, could you? Do you remember any of the jokes or set-pieces? How about the film references contained within? In the first act of Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play , a group of survivors in a post-Apocalyptic America gather together around a fire, trying to remember the details of “Cape Feare”, the second episode of the fifth season of The Simpsons , which first aired in 1993 and has been replayed thousands of times since. The grid is offline, nuclear power-plants have melted down, and in the weeks and months after this world-wide disaster, people are telling stories to pass the time and to connect with each other. This is and isn’t people telling ghost stories around a fire; the detai
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