"Weird Tales" to Sponsor Play About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury, one of the twentieth century's most prodigious authors of science fiction, horror, and mysteries (and who should need little more introduction) is about to find himself the subject of a play. At Toronto's upcoming Fringe Festival, Bradbury and his deceased wife will become characters in a serious play about life, death, and close relationships. "Weird Tales" magazine is to thank for this. Somehow, it seems fitting for the magazine that helped launch Bradbury's career in the 1940s to serve as a benefactor of Bradbury's transition from author to literary device.

The play runs July 2-12, and is said to have another appearance slated for Hamilton, California's Fringe Festival (August 15-24). More details about the play from the "Weird Tales" announcement:

"Without Whom," written by Toronto playwright R.J. Downes, draws upon elements of the Bradburys' lives to create the characters of Ray and Maggie Monarch, asking: "What happens when we leave this life? Does the world really go on without us? What if we could make death wait --.even if only for a little while? Ray and Maggie were married for forty years, bickering and fighting, loving and sometimes hating. Now that one of them has passed on, how will the other go on alone? And more importantly: which one of them actually died?"

-Grim Blogger