Livia Genise Productions in partnership with Ashland Contemporary Theatre present:
A Staged Reading of
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
Based on the 1953 novel of the same name, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed
Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses
in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce,
returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred,who spends all day with her television “family.”
But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, 16-year-old Clarisse,
who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present
where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television,
Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
“Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears many
alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.” —Orville Prescott, The New York Times
“A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It’s life-changing if you read it as a teen,
and still stunning when you reread it as an adult.” —Alice Hoffman, The Boston Globe
“One of this country’s most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic.”
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
6 PERFORMANCES ONLY!
July 22 & 23 @ 8 PM, July 24 @ 3 pm
July 29 & 30 @ 8 PM , July 31 @ 3 PM
All performances are at the Bellview Grange,
1050 Tolman Creek Road @ Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland
TICKETS GO ON SALE JULY 5!
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury
Based on the 1953 novel of the same name, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed
Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.
Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses
in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce,
returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred,who spends all day with her television “family.”
But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, 16-year-old Clarisse,
who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present
where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television,
Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
“Brilliant . . . Startling and ingenious . . . Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears many
alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.” —Orville Prescott, The New York Times
“A masterpiece . . . A glorious American classic everyone should read: It’s life-changing if you read it as a teen,
and still stunning when you reread it as an adult.” —Alice Hoffman, The Boston Globe
“One of this country’s most beloved writers . . . A great storyteller, sometimes even a mythmaker, a true American classic.”
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
6 PERFORMANCES ONLY!
July 22 & 23 @ 8 PM, July 24 @ 3 pm
July 29 & 30 @ 8 PM , July 31 @ 3 PM
All performances are at the Bellview Grange,
1050 Tolman Creek Road @ Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland
TICKETS GO ON SALE JULY 5!
