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Campus News
The Clarion \ December 4, 2019
No excuse
Jones Library
to procrastinate!
extends their hours for finals
Exams are closer than you think, but the
staff at Jones Library are prepared as they
have extended their hours just in time for
finals.
Today until Friday, Dec. 13, the library
will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.
on the weekends.
From student tutors to our extensive
collection of digital and physical resources,
this is a great opportunity to experience
all that the library has to offer! Brevard
College’s top notch librarial staff is more
than willing to assist you as you prepare
for exams.
If you aren’t sure when your exams are,
no worries! Check out my.brevard.edu to
download the official exam schedule, or
check with your instructor. Happy studying!
—Chloe McGee
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BC Theatre
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This play was loaded with pop-culture
references, making a note of the other famous
movies and characters from before the
apocalypse. After several noises are heard from
the area surrounding their campfire, they load
up their guns to defend their supplies. A man
emerges from the woods with information and
stories from cities across the country.
The audience learns that a nuclear meltdown
of some kind has caused the country to go into
total chaos.
Each character has a book that contains the
names of their loved ones and their ages in
hopes of reuniting with them at a later point.
Everyone read off their names to the newcomer
with a desperate tone, but he had not seen their
family or friends. After this exchange, they
started talking about “The Simpsons” episode
again, trying to remember one specific line and
then finally getting it.
Fast forward seven years to Act Two, the
characters had changed and developed over time
and they had created a system for making some
sort of currency. The original characters have set
up a playhouse and are putting on live TV shows
containing what they can remember and lines
that have been traded to survivors for supplies.
They practice “The Simpsons,” equipped with
masks for the characters; they also include
commercials and play music, a capella style.
The group sings songs like “Roar” by Katy
Perry and “Toxic” by Britney Spears in a
makeshift car, pretending that these are songs
on the radio. This scene receives a loud round
of applause from the audience.
There are many other groups like this, trading
supplies for lines and it seems the group we are
following is at a disagreement with some of the
other groups. It is shown that many people are
making up lines just to get food or supplies and
threatening members of the group.
The scene ends very ominously, with many
loud gunshots, bangs and lights falling. This
made the audience jump in their seats.
After a brief intermission, Act Three started
with the largest time jump yet. 75 years had
passed since we had last been in this world.
Characters emerged from the darkness in long
robes and masks, chanting very mysterious but
sometimes recognizable words. They marched
around the stage as they acted out this strange
ceremony.
The curtains were pulled to reveal a large
boat, which was set as the scene from “The
Simpsons,” weaving in some aspects of the real-
life disaster to the fictional one in the episode. It
seems as this world now has turned the episode
from something humorous to something they
worship and take very seriously.The way the
episode was presented was not how the original
cast thought it should look like, but over time,
the content was skewed heavily.
“Mr. Bums, A Post Electric Play” ends with
the completion of the episode, which contained
very dark imagery and a song from Bart’s
character followed by chanting from the group.
A sense of the story being open ended and
unfinished could be felt. The audience was very
impressed by the play and the actors and gave
the performance a standing ovation.