Fahrenheit 451: A One-Person Play with Rich Orlow
Kings Bay Library Presents Literature to Life stage presentation of:
Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury
Performed by Rich Orlow
Adapted and Directed by Wynn Handman
Based on the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ©1953, renewed 1981 by Ray Bradbury, published by Simon and Schuster
When: Saturday, April 5, 2025, 2 pm
ages: Teen and Adults
Where: Kings Bay Library, Community Room
Literature to Life brings Ray Bradbury's terrifyingly recognizable vision of the future to the stage for audiences of all ages. Guy Montag is a fireman in a not-so-distant future. Except instead of putting out fires, he starts them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vision of a world, awash in information, but lacking critical thought, offers audiences a sobering look at our world, while offering hope for a better future. The show features sixty minutes of performance spanning the full breadth of this beloved American science fiction novel. In performance, the actor tells the story from the perspective of the protagonist, Montag, and seamlessly transitions between the five other primary characters.
Rich Orlow, Actor: Rich is an Emmy nominated and Golden Earphone Award winning actor and voice over artist. He’s appeared Off Broadway and regionally including; Joe Clay in Day of Wine and Roses, Mr. Lockhart in The Seafarer, Gus in The Dumb Waiter, Eddie in Hurlyburly and many others. He loves performing Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for The Literature to Life program and believes whole heartedly in the company’s mission. Rich has also voiced countless commercials, narration, animation, video games and recorded books, and has served as a dialect coach for Off Broadway productions. He has also been featured in numerous television shows and films.
QUOTE
“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
LINK TO YOUTUBE CLIP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRLRvYVhaGE
LINK TO LTL TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UnCJIkPPNo
ABOUT LITERATURE TO LIFE (LTL)
LITERATURE TO LIFE (LTL) is a performance-based literacy program that presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American literary classics. LTL’s mission is to perform great books that inspire young people to read and become authors of their own lives. LTL was founded more than three decades ago as the educational program of the American Place Theatre. Now an independent organization, this mighty collective of artists and educators brings the voices of diverse authors to thousands of students and audiences nationwide, giving them the tools to become the empowered “voices worth hearing” of our future.
For booking inquiries about this or any other of Literature to Life’s arts and literacy programs, please contact Lisa Beth Vettoso at Literature to Life: lisa.v@literaturetolife.org. Visit us online at www.literaturetolife.org or @lit2life
This program is generously supported by a grant from Assembly Member Helene Weinstein.
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