Cost of Living Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok is penning a stage adaptation of Ray Bradbury's seminal novel Fahrenheit 451.

Glass Half Full Productions (POTUS, Betrayal) and Aaron Glick (Kimberly Akimbo, What the Constitution Means to Me) are producing the Broadway-aimed adaptation. No timeline has been announced.

Bradbury’s classic, originally published in 1953, is set in a not-too-distant future, where a fireman’s role is not to put out fires, but to start them. Books are forbidden and burned, and those who defy the rules are tracked down and punished.

Majok said in a statement, "The relevancy of mind domination and the end of the world in our current age needs no words; what struck me most in Fahrenheit 451 was its lens on our loneliness. How our yearning for connection and fear of its absence can be feasted upon. How we long to devote ourselves to something true and lasting in a fracturing society. And the ways we blow up our lives to unearth the truth we've buried—which will shatter us into our most honest selves. As Bradbury writes, 'We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in awhile.'"

The Bradbury Estate added, “We are delighted to bring Fahrenheit 451 to a new audience, with the impact and intimacy that only theatre can offer, to be working with producers who care so deeply for the work and with Martyna Majok, a truly great dramatist of enormous intelligence, sensitivity and skill.”

The late Bradbury was the author of more than three dozen books, including The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, and over 500 short stories. 

Majok was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Cost of Living, which was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound and the libretto for Gatsby: An American Myth, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett.

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