For more information:

Myra Saturen, 610-332-6547

Spend an enchanting “Evening with Ray Bradbury,” performances of two one-act plays at Northampton Community College’s Main and Monroe campuses “Great Collision of Monday Last” and “A Clear View of an Irish Mist.” Both plays take place in Heeber Finn’s Irish Pub and were created out of Bradury’s stay in Ireland while he was writing a screenplay for director John Huston’s movie Moby Dick.

Ray Bradbury is one of our country’s most popular, prolific and critically acclaimed novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist, best known for Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. For over 50 years, his tales have been adapted to theatre, movies and television.

The plays will be directed by Kristopher Yoder, an Equity actor living in the Lehigh Valley. Yoder received an M.F.A. (Master in Fine Arts) from Wayne State University in Detroit and a B.A. in theater from DeSales University. He earned a certificate of study from the Moscow Art Theater School and has taken master’s classes with the Royal Shakespeare Company and with the Shaw and Shakespeare Festivals in Ontario. He is currently teaching at Messiah College, near Harrisburg.

“Most people don’t know that Bradbury actually wrote a few plays,” Yoder says. “Also they are NOT science fiction, a misnomer that is attached to Bradbury’s name. So hopefully the audience will be surprised and interested in seeing something a little more poetic and uncommon.”

Performances are: Tuesday, March 4, 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Main Campus, Lab Theatre, Kopecek Hall, 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem Township. Friday and Saturday, March 7 & 8, 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 9, 2:00 p.m. at the Monroe Campus, Community Hall, 3 Old Mill Road, Tannersville.

Admission is free, but a donation of canned goods for a local food pantry or a donation to the NCC Actors’ Scholarship Fund is requested. For more information and tickets call 610-861-5524 or e-mail ncc_theatre_tickets@northampton.edu