Science fiction is a genre often characterized by massive tomes that aren’t always worth their enormous weight in technobabble. Perhaps that’s why Ray Bradbury’s skill with the sci-fi short story keeps his works in constant circulation: their premises easy to digest and tight prose packing the hardest punches. Thus, about 50 years after it was adapted by the man himself from a short story into a play, Austin’s own commedia dell’arte troupe La Fenice – through their youth-centric the Spark project – reenacts this tale of a man 200 years out of his own time. However, this time the interpretation comes from new theatrical minds: teenagers. – James Scott
Through Sept. 6