1984 may well be the most significant work of modern fiction. The
company brings this work to the stage without seeking to simplify its
message or dilute its power.
The brilliance of 1984 is not only that it predicts a surveillance society
in which we now exist, or that it exposes the lies behind every
totalitarian ideology or belief, but that it explores these themes inside
the human mind as well as in the outer world.
“Thought Control” is the aim of the State in 1984, and this will be
achieved by destroying language so that it is impossible to commit
“Thought Crime” ?
Is Orwell’s vision any different from the dumbing down of our
communication through digital media, the collapse of writing and the
triumph of the digital banal ?
Orwell predicts a world where Ideology vanishes under the crushing
impact of brute power, power for its own corrupt sake. Meanwhile, as
Orwell predicted, War becomes a continuous condition of life, one
that justifies any and every form of repression in the name of nothing.
Against this pessimistic background stands the simple heroism and
physical desire of the main chracters: Winston and Julia. Their journey
through quiet rebellion to hope and despair happens in the outside
world and within their minds. Our production follows their external
and internal journey until they meet in the torture chambers of
Room 101.
Paul Stebbings directs a thriller and a love story, a mind game and an
end game. Illuminated by a modern rock score from Christian Auer
this production aims to tell what may be the greatest story of our time
as we stumble towards an ”Orwellian” future where Big Brother is
watching YOU.
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