The play serves as a dire warning about the rise of fake news and global paranoia Marc Brenner
The Twilight Zone, Almeida Theatre, London, to 27 January
The last time London saw a play by award-winning US writer Anne Washburn it was Mr Burns – a journey into a post-apocalyptic future, where the remnants of human civilisation clung to half-remembered fragments of The Simpsons. Fitting, then, that she should return to skewer the strange times we live in through the hallucinatory lens of The Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling’s genre-defying anthology series was first broadcast in 1959, in an America haunted…
