Martians - An Evening With Ray Bradbury at Whitefire Theatre

Martians - An Evening With Ray Bradbury

Whitefire Theatre
13500 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks

Ray Bradbury speaks directly to the audience weaving Martians stories both humorous and harrowing,bringing his characters to life on stage right before your eyes. Characters like Bob and Carrie, a young couple struggling to turn the cold, dead Mars into an Earthly garden. There are Beck and Craig, two soldiers of fortune searching for the legendary Blue Bottle of Mars! Father Nivens religious faith traps a shapeshifting Martian in the form of Christ! Emil Barton is the last man on Mars with only recordings of his younger self to keep him company, or drive him mad!

Thru - Nov 10, 2018

Box Office: 818-990-2324

www.whitefiretheatre.com

Martians - An Evening With Ray Bradbury Reviews

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Broadway World - Recommended

"...The point of the final story seems to be that people will lose our connection to everyone else if we only speak to each other electronically. So, as we exist here in the middle between living in caves and among the stars, perhaps it's time to put down all the electronics and share our thoughts through the mind-expanding wonder created by reading a book, allowing our imaginations to soar so that we really can live forever on the printed page, just as Ray Bradbury undoubtedly will."

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- Shari Barrett

Gia on the Move - Highly Recommended

"...Mount gives us a Bradbury eager to not only teach us, but to solve some problems. "Write, don't think," he says, and does so as we watch his characters come to life on stage. Characters from The Strawberry Window, The Blue Bottle, The Messiah, and Night Call, Collect appear and we experience their stories in the same moment that their writer does. It's a fascinating and ingenious device that creators Mount and Rack use to give Bradbury real stakes - he's trying to say something through his stories, but how can he finish them until he knows what that is?"

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- Matt Ritchey

Santa Monica Daily Press - Recommended

"...Bradbury, who could write a masterpiece like "Fahrenheit 451″ in nine days, claims that if he hadn't become a writer, he would want to be a magician, reflecting the enormous admiration he had for a carnival magician named Mr. Electrico who touched him with a "magic wand" and made his hair stand on end. And to emphasize this revelation, Bradbury pauses to perform a magic trick for the captivated audience."

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- Cynthia Citron

Theatre Notes - Highly Recommended

"...In the new play, Martians: An Evening With Ray Bradbury, created and written by Charlie Mount and Jeff G. Rack, the warmth and good humor of Ray Bradbury is wonderfully embodied in the performance of Mr. Mount, who engages the audience with enthusiastic, playful intimacy as he, in the guise of the great Bradbury, expounds on his childhood, his writing methodology, and the universe in general. His performance is a tour-de-force."

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- Paul Myrvold

The TVolution - Somewhat Recommended

"...The result is wildly baroque, madly ambitious, passionately driven and only mildly successful. The blame for this lack of success can be placed squarely at the feet of the undertaking's cluttered concept and lackluster pacing."

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- Ernest Kearney

Martians - An Evening With Ray Bradbury at Whitefire Theatre