What if Bradbury was only a few years off? If Fahrenheit 451 really happened today, what would we do? After L'Angelo della Storia, the Florentine theatre research collective Sotterraneo returns to LAC with an original reinterpretation of Ray Bradbury's famous science fiction novel written in 1953 and set in the 2020s – i.e. today.

'You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. You just have to convince people to stop reading them." Fahrenheit 451 imagines a dystopian future in which reading or owning books is forbidden, screens are constantly on and absorb all free time, and the mere attempt to think causes physical discomfort. Firefighters no longer put out fires: they start them to burn books and, if necessary, even those who own them.
Il fuoco era la cura freely revisits and reinterprets Bradbury's novel, consuming it as one does a beloved book: leafed through a thousand times, carried everywhere, forgotten somewhere and then found again, with a faded cover, pages falling out and filled with notes, bookmarks, cards and memories.
Five performers retrace the story, merging with the characters, moving horizontally and mapping the grey areas: the questions left unanswered, the things Bradbury does not explain to us, the possible narratives between our present and an anti-cultural future in which stupidity seems to become a way of salvation from the weight of complex thought.