Pandemonium Press An Irregular Publication of RAY BRADBURY’S PANDEMONIUM THEATRE COMPANY Celebrating its 45th ANNIVERSARY YEAR!!
Issue No. 44 April/May 2008
THE PLAY’S THE THING
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury’s Science Fiction Classic Fahrenheit 451 opens at the Fremont Centre Theatre on April 19!
Firemen in a world of the near future don’t put out fires, they start them. They burn books. Reading is banned in the interest of maintaining a becalmed, dumbed-down society. People are fed contrived TV “reality” shows in which viewers participate in the action.
But the human intellect and instinct for freedom can’t be completely denied and a rebellious few will read books regardless of the consequences. One of the rebels is a fireman himself. Can rebel fireman Montag and his friends save their cultural heritage?
First published in 1953, Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 is eerily prescient and as relevant now as it was on the day it first appeared. It has been made into a film (by Truffaut), an opera, and a play. Now, Ray Bradbury’s masterpiece returns, opening at the Fremont Centre Theatre on April 19.
The cast includes David Polcyn (as Montag), Michael Prichard, Roses Prichard, Steven Robert Wollenberg, Meaghan Boeing, Joshua Moore, Lee Holmes, Simon Russell, Fred Hamel, Grady Hutt, Robert Kerr, Eddie Ruiz, Joan Jack, Paul Bond, Courtney Meritt, Jessica D. Stone and Philip Sokoloff. Produced by Ray Bradbury and Racquel Lehrman, Alan Neal Hubbs directs this production, with John Edw. Blankenchip, Production Designer; Peter Strauss, Lighting Designer; Dean Cameron, Costume Designer and Elliott Woodruff, Production Stage Manager.
Fremont Centre Theatre 1000 Fremont Ave. (at El Centro) South Pasadena, CA 91030
Previews Friday, April 18, 2008 at 8 pm Opening Night: Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 8 pm Performances: Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm – Sunday at 3 pm Closing Night: Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 8 pm Admission: $20. Seniors: $15. Students: $10. Reservations and Information: 323-960-4451 Online Ticketing: www.Plays411.com/raybradbury
. . . excerpted from the Press Releases by Philip Sokoloff (showbizphil@sbcglobal.net)
RAY AROUND TOWN
Saturday, April 26, LA Times Festival of Books
Ray will be signing books at the Vagabond Book booth #634 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. He will lecture at Royce Hall at 4:30 pm.
THE WRITER magazine for April 2008 is reprinting an article by Ray, "How to Keep and Feed the Muse," which originally appeared in the magazine's July 1961 issue.
Ray contributes a short autobiographical chapter to the book 80: OUR MOST FAMOUS 80-YEAR-OLDS, ed. by Gerald Gardner & Jim Bellows (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007).
Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company Established 1963 Ray Bradbury, Co-Founder, Producer and Playwright The late Charles Rome Smith, Co-Founder and Director