The publisher was afraid that the reader wouldn't be able to keep track of what was going on. All this was to help him get a grip on the material, and to help him see one of the problems with his draft of Dandelion Wine, which was that it was really an assembly of short stories, nearly all of them dealing with different characters. At the suggestion of his publisher, he drew the layout of the town and also wrote out a cast of characters. In Eller and Touponce's Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction there is a sketch of Green Town that Bradbury drew in the 1950s. That, and thinking about the imminent release of Bradbury's new book Farewell Summer, got me curious about the relationship between Bradbury's fictional Green Town - home of Ray's alter ego Doug Spaulding - and his real home town of Waukegan Illinois.

As such, the net effect of this wistful charmer is akin to catching fireflies on a balmy summer night.' –David C.I've been listening to a review copy of Colonial Radio Theatre 's forthcoming CD dramatisation of Dandelion Wine (which is beautifully done, by the way). 'The designs are evocative, with assets in Peter Strauss' moody lighting and David Gunn's tinkling original score, and Bradbury's ripe language sustains past the odd exposed beat or shaky transition of director Alan Neal Hubbs' sturdy staging. Just exactly how much magic can occur on the streets of one little town? The writer is supposed to be dead.Īnother miracle manifests: The writer meets a soul-mate, and falls deeply and profoundly in love. A famous novelist appears in town, with the ability to transport a young boy to cities and battlefields far away. Hurtling from antiquity, an ancient Egyptian mummy materializes and electrifies the village walking the streets. Young boys discover the secrets of time travel and, while they still can, visit the sights and sounds of decades past. It is a portal to a world of amazing adventures, where shackles are removed from the imagination and the impossible becomes reality. It turns out that Green Town is not a sleepy little Midwest town. It is a time of fondly remembered wonders.

It’s a peaceful town….until fantastic events begin to intrude, of course. It’s a place where businesses are locally owned, and their proprietors are known to all, as are people’s neighbors. It’s an indeterminate time, somewhere around 1930 perhaps, in a Midwestern place where trees line streets surrounded by abundant flora, giving the locale its name. “Ray Bradbury’s Green Town.” is a themed evening, a deft mix of fantasy and nostalgia set in the mythical town of Green Town, Illinois, probably suggested by Bradbury’s own birthplace, Waukegan. Presented by Ray Bradbury’s Pandemonium Theatre Company Written by Ray Bradbury, directed by Alan Neal Hubbs.

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