The Washington Post, May 18th, 2006
Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," which forecast a future when a totalitarian government has banned books and citizens are lulled into passivity, was hot when it was published in 1953. Onstage in 2006, "Fahrenheit 451" is getting a lot of attention again. Bradbury's tale, which he adapted for the stage in 1979 but which was not produced anywhere until recently, seems relevant to many concerned about current national events, but it may already be an anachronism. After all, it does not take into account the technology that allows the content of books to remain extant and viable even if books are...
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