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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Wolverhampton
“Dandelion Wine”
Brief Description
This chapter, styled as a review of an audio dramatization, examines American author Ray Bradbury’s theatrical adaptation of his novel Dandelion Wine.
Research Rationale
The author Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) dramatized a large number of his prose works for stage and screen. This article examines one instance of a visually evocative prose text being dramatized by its original author, and the dramatization being subsequently adapted for audio-only performance.
Strategies Undertaken
The article draws on a structural comparison of the prose, stage and radio narratives, and builds upon William Touponce’s use of Gaston Bachelard’s “poetics of reverie” to place the stage dramatization into context in Bradbury’s body of work. It also develops the only previous scholarship on Bradbury’s theatrical work, Ben Indick’s “Ray Bradbury, Dramatist” (1989).
