Fahrenheit 451

Written By Ray Bradbury
Directed By Kenny Morris

January 13-29, 2011
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper ignites. With simple sets and uncomplicated staging, this powerful drama is about the inner struggle of Guy Montag, a fireman. Montag has worked as a civil servant for ten years burning books, but lately he has become increasingly unsure about what he is doing and about his vegetable-like existence. It is not until he meets 16-year-old Clarisse, who is filled with strange ideas, that he is led into a dangerous and highly combustible situation. Now he must choose between continuing his nonexistent existence and risking everything for the right to think.

Featuring: Chris Boucher, Kelsey Crawford, Jonathan Sweatt, Bates Redwine, Karen Griffo, Ron Dauphinee, Jacob Crawford, Jacob Simmons, and Debbie Smith

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for theatre, cinema and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's Moby Dick and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television 65 of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and numerous other honors.