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Mr Burns
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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.
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The Second Act
A projection: 7 Years Later
A cozy living room.
GIBSON, in an armchair, is watching a TV which is facing away from us – he is holding a remote and is switching channels; a faint flickering plays across his face.
QUINCY enters wearing an office suit, blouse, the heels, the leather purse, the earrings.
QUINCY: Ach.
GIBSON: Ach?
She lets her purse drop to the ground.
QUINCY: Such a day!
GIBSON: Yeah?
QUINCY: SUCH a day. You’re just going to – sit there, you aren’t going to…come to…greet me…or
She’s removing her earrings.
GIBSON: That’s dogs. Sometimes children.
QUINCY: Right. Children. I was thinking about that on the drive today, there was a radio program
GIBSON: Plenty of time.
COLLEEN: Jenny I can see the plug.
JENNY emerges from backstage.
JENNY: Oh I thought I (Sees the plug.) oh alright. Do you want to go on, or…?
COLLEEN: Gibson is that where we set the chair?
GIBSON leans over, looks at the spike marks
GIBSON: Yup.
SAM has drifted out from offstage.
SAM: That’s the spot.
COLLEEN: Maybe closer.
GIBSON: You’re not getting the (He indicates light flickering on his face.)
JENNY: Not really.
COLLEEN: Yeah. We just don’t have enough candles.
SAM: I can rig it up for more easy.
COLLEEN: Not currently in the budget. Okay…
GIBSON: Richard’s, I saw one of their TV scenes, you get the color also, it looks great, I got one of their guys a couple drink after and he said they have this blue – cellophane plastic, this clear blue cellophane plastic over it so
JENNY: Yeah…
GIBSON: That wrap, remember? For food.
COLLEEN: Yeah very hard to come by.
MATT: Oh!
They look at him.
A mirror, right? In the back? Behind.
SAM: Right. Nice.
COLLEEN: Well worth trying.
SAM: There’s one above the sink in the bathroom I can de-install.
MATT: We’re gonna need to break it.
SAM: Yah.
MARIA: Colleen this should be a bigger foot motion, yes?
She pantomimes the stomping.
COLLEEN: Yeah it can be huge.
MATT: As long as you retract your foot fully, each time.
COLLEEN: Yeah all the way back, all the way forward. And Matt that second blank pause can actually be that moment/longer
MATT: Longer. I know I know. Can we
MARIA: Yeah can we just run through the FBI scene again
COLLEEN: Oh no. Absolutely not. We’ve got to get the commercials in gear.
MARIA: But we’ve got to work on the episode the episode is so creaky.
COLLEEN: Absolutely. Tonight. Tonight we work on the episode.
MARIA: Okay but at this moment, I feel like it’s more efficient, while it’s in my head –
MATT: I’d actually I’d really love to go around again with my yelp of terror. I thought of a perfection.
JENNY: And the transition sucked. We have to work on the transition anyway.
QUINCY: The transition really did suck.
COLLEEN: Jesus Hell. Alright fine.
MARIA: From the beginning? That would be so great.
COLLEEN: Fine! But we’ve got to get it set up in two seconds.
MARIA: Thank you.
COLLEEN: Two seconds!
As they de-assemble the living room:
JENNY: You know what has got to be more of a thing also: Sideshow Bob. The houseboat.
MARIA: Absolutely.
COLLEEN: Right. I know. Of course. Right.
JENNY: Now it’s just sort of: here I am clambering up the side of this houseboat, here I am shaking my fist, ah there’s thunder, now I think I’ll go inside it could just be much much more, you know, a thing
GIBSON: I would be more than happy for it to be more of a thing
MATT: Well it’s the timing. Right now, it’s all over the map.
GIBSON: Well we’ve never really set it.
JENNY: Yeah there’s a lot of opportunity there.
COLLEEN: In our copious free time. Sam did you have a chance to adjust the padding on the rakes?
SAM: Yeah it should be a more comfortable thwack now.
GIBSON: Thank you Sam.
COLLEEN: Places!
And…
An FBI office. An agent speaks to HOMER. Another agent lounges nearby.
FIRST AGENT: My name is Agent Seacrest Mr. Simpson, Agent Seacrest FBI Witness Protection Program.
HOMER: Uh huh.
FIRST AGENT: Mr. Simpson your family no longer needs to fear Sideshow Bob –
HOMER: Uh huh.
FIRST AGENT: We are relocating you to a houseboat, on Terror River.
He yanks down on a display screen – a map of Terror River and the adjacent scary surroundings is displayed.
HOMER: Aah!
FIRST AGENT: And you’ll have a new identity.
HOMER: Woo hoo! O.J. Simpson! O.J. Simpson!
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Notes on the Play
- Notes on Staging
- Characters
- Notes on Notation
- Contents
- The First Act
- The Second Act
- The Third Act