Read the full article by Odin Rasco at RAM’s New Times Magazine
Walking in a loose line of attendees, snaking around the back of the Harris Center for the Arts on our way to the first of the three stages where we’d see Falcon’s Eye Theatre’s production of “Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play,” my expectations were set higher than I normally would have them.
When heading out to review a show, I try my best to stay open-minded; I approach my reviews as an opportunity to positively, but honestly, celebrate the people in the greater Sacramento area who take on the laudable work of putting on plays. But this show was different. I had worked with some of the cast and many of the crew before, and knew how high a bar they were capable of hitting. Paired with that, they were taking on one of my favorite plays penned in the past 20 years — I’d fallen in love with the story and its impeccably well-layered references and themes after seeing Sacramento City College’s staging of it in 2021.