Notes Limited Livestream Rights Available Contact our customer service department for more information. The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. The play was created as a one-man play but may be easily adapted to be performed by as many as 14 actors. 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 stories use the device of the character 'The Illustrated Man,' one of Bradbury's most familiar creations, as a narrator. Also includes such hard to find stories as “R is for Rocket,” “Asleep in Armageddon,” and “The Lost City of Mars.Ten storiessome famous, some lesser-knowncreated 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.

Rounding out the volume are twenty-seven other short stories from the first half of Bradbury’s career selected by Bradbury scholar Joanthan R, Eller, including “Frost and Fire,” in which humans on another planet live only eight days “The Pedestrian,” about the only man in the world who does not watch television, and “I Sing the Body Electric!,” in which a family purchases a robotic grandmother.

This edition restores the original artwork by Joe Mugnaini. And in “Touched with Fire,” two old men have learned to predict future murders. In “The Next in Line,” a woman becomes convinced that she’ll never leave the small, Mexican town she’s traveled to on vacation. “Uncle Einar” and “Homecoming” concern the monstrous and immortal Elliott family. The stories explore both the dehumanizing possibilities of space-age technology-in “The Veldt” and “The Rocket Man”and the pessimistic, dark side of humanity, as in “The Visitor.”Ĭollects nineteen short stories: macabre carnival tales, speculative horror, and strange fantasy. contains eighteen short stories bound together by the unifying metaphor of a strangely tattooed outcast. the more Earthbound science fiction companion to Bradbury’s classic collection Here are two of Bradbury’s most beloved collections, along with twenty-seven other stories, that together represent the best of Bradbury’s stories of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy.

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