1. 1984
By George Orwell

2. Big Brother is watching you

3. About the book George Orwell (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950)
8th June 1949
Dystopian Novel
Totalitarian State based on Soviet Union & Nazi Germany
Based in England
The Party – thought police, 2 Minutes of Hate
Follow Winston Smith
Fun Fact: It has 42 different covers!

5. 2 + 2 = 5

6. NY Times original review:
“a work of pure horror, and its horror is crushingly immediate.”
The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
Turned in into a film by Michael Radford

7. Adaptation into a play
BY ROBERT ICKE & DUNCAN MACMILLAN

9. https://youtu.be/63WuTuIBRTk

10. War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength

11. Original Cast & Crew
WINSTON O’BRIEN CHARRINGTON MARTIN SYME PARSONS MRS PARSONS JULIA Mark Arends Tim Dutton Stephen Fewell Christopher Patrick Nolan Matthew Spencer Gavin Spokes Mandi Symonds Hara Yannas
DESIGN LIGHTING SOUND VIDEO ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CASTING DIRECTOR TRAINEE DIRECTOR ANIMAL HANDLER Chloe Lamford Natasha Chivers Tom Gibbons Tim Reid Daniel Raggett Ginny Schiller CDGC Ross Levy EAB Animals

12. Directors ROBERT ICKE DUNCAN MACMILLAN Award-winning writer & director
Associate Director at Almeida
The Fever; Mr Burns
Adaptation of Orestia – transferred to West End, 2015
DUNCAN MACMILLAN
Award-winning writer & director
Plays:
Lungs; Every Brilliant Thing; 2071
People, Places and Things – transferred to West End, 2016

13. STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn talks about 1984

14. Sanity is not statistical

15. Reviews Michael Billington – 4/5
“The big innovation is to treat Orwell’s appendix on the Principles of Newspeak as a vital part of the story”
“fierce intelligence”
“I worry that the theatre is rapidly becoming a place of dramatisations rather than original drama”
“Chillingly relevant”
“disorientating and disconcerting”
“not always easy to watch, but impossible to look away from” – 4/5
“Depressingly relevant and brilliantly discomfiting – 5/5”
“fizzes with sinister energy”
“highly stylised, and some might say overproduced”
“utterly disturbing”
“modern masterpiece” – 5 stars

16. Significant Staging & Effects
STRONG
LIGHT
&
SOUND
COMBINATION
“Lighting, sound and video design (…) both shock the senses and achieve swift transitions between past, present and future”

17. Who controls the past controls the future
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

18. Themes Dangers of Totalitarianism Psychological Manipulation
Physical Control
Control of information & history
Language as mind control
TECHNOLOGY

19. Marketing

20. It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words
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