There are many levels of inspiration, appropriation, and satire in Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, which is fitting for a play with The Simpsons at its center. The post-apocalypse production starts with a campfire discussion about episode two from season five, “Cape Feare.” Eventually, the same group performs the episode live as part of their pop culture-centric theater troupe; decades later, others perform a more severe version of the episode in a Simpsonsesque theater, where we see how the titular miser — and the relevance of electricity — figure into the production (and the production-within-the-production). If this all seems familiar, Troy Heard and Vegas Theatre Company staged the play in 2015. But even if you were there, Mr. Burns is a well-layered work that demands a revisit.

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