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The Illustrated Bradbury

"[The] stories are fantastic, apocryphal and optimistic... More than a collection of entertaining tales, it is an insightful social commentary."

Daily Sundial

  • Full Length Play
  • Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
Ten stories -- some famous, some lesser-known -- created by Ray Bradbury, the world's greatest writer of fantasy and science fiction, have been adapted to be played by a flexible cast utilizing only a few simple props and costume pieces.

The stories use the device of the character "The Illustrated Man," one of Bradbury's most familiar creations, as a narrator. Among the selections that are dramatized are such classic Bradbury tales as The Fog Horn: a monster rises out of the deeps in answer to the plaintive call of the foghorn; The Murderer: a man confesses to killing his telephone; There Was an Old Woman: an elderly woman dies and confronts the mortician, threatening to haunt him for 200 years if she isn't given back her body; and The Anthem Sprinters: an Irishman creates a game out of who can exit the cinema fastest after the final scene.

The play was created as a one-man play but may be easily adapted to be performed by as many as 14 actors. 

REVIEWS:

"Enthralling stories."

 American Chronicle

"[The] stories are fantastic, apocryphal and optimistic... More than a collection of entertaining talent, it is an insightful social commentary."

 Daily Sundial

  • Casting: 1M, 6M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting
  • Casting Notes: 1 to 8M, 6 either gender.

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Ten storiesesome famous, some lesser-knownecreated by Ray Bradbury, the world's greatest writer of fantasy and science fiction, have been adapted to be played by a flexible cast utilizing only a few simple props and costume pieces. The stories use the device of the character The Illustrated Man, one of Bradbury's most familiar creations, as a narrator. Among the selections that are dramatized are such classic Bradbury tales as The Fog Horn: a monster rises out of the deeps in answer to the plaintive call of the foghorn; The Murderer: a man confesses to killing his telephone; There Was an Old Woman: an elderly woman dies and confronts the mortician, threatening to haunt him for 200 years if she isn't given back her body; and The Anthem Sprinters: an Irishman creates a game out of who can exit the cinema fastest after the final scene. The play was created as a one-man play but may be easily adapted to be performed by as many as 14 actors. Bare stage w/ props. Approximate running time: 2 hours.

$19.95