April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching.
Orwell's ideas have become our ideas; his fiction is often said to be our reality. The "definitive book of the 20th century" (The Guardian) is re-examined in this radical and much lauded staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell's vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.
The international 5-star smash hit production of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece 1984 returns to the West End. Now seen by over a quarter of a million people, theatre's most powerful event has just returned from an international tour. Don't miss out.
The cast includes: Rosie Ede, Andrew Gower, Joshua Higgott, Richard Katz, Anthony O’Donnell, Daniel Rabin, Catrin Stewart and Angus Wright alongside Eve Benioff Salama, Cleopatra Dickens, Amber Fernee and India Fowler who will alternate the role of Child.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Copyright, 1949) by permission of Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell, in a new adaptation created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan
SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS AND ELEANOR LLOYD PRODUCTIONS PRESENT THE HEADLONG, NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE AND ALMEIDA THEATRE PRODUCTION OF 1984
Company
Cast Mark Arends, Tim Dutton, Stephen Fewell, Christopher Patrick Nolan, Matthew Spencer, Gavin Spokes, Mandi Symonds, Hara Yannas
Writer George Orwell
Adaptation Robert Icke & Duncan Macmillan
Designer Chloe Lamford
Lighting Designer Natasha Chivers
Sound Designer Tom Gibbons
Video Designer Tim Reid
Reviews
1984 (2013 version)
★★★★★
"This is a staging that reconsiders a classic with such steely power that it chills brain, blood and bone"
The Times
1984 (2013 version)
★★★★★
"Liverpool-born Mark Arends is an affecting Winston"
Liverpool Post
1984 (2013 version)
"A theatrical tour de force that has the destructive power of an earthquake"
The Stage