2 1984 (Broadway Edition)
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Robert Icke is an award-winning writer and director. He is currently Associate Director of the Almeida, where his work includes adapting and directing the multi-award-winning Oresteia (also West End), Mary Stuart, Uncle Vanya, and, with Duncan Macmillan, adapting and directing the smash-hit 1984, which has toured the world, played three seasons in the West End and won several major awards. His directing work includes Hamlet, Iliad, Odyssey, The Fever, Mr Burns (Almeida) and The Red Barn (National)."This is a staging that reconsiders a classic with such steely power that it chills brain, blood and bone." -- The Times
The Times
"A work of extraordinary quality and intensity." -- Independent
The Independent
"[A] pitilessly brilliant retelling of the doomed love affair between Winston and Julia." -- The Guardian
The Guardian
"This risk-taking adaptation of George Orwell's masterpiece is doubleplusgood." -- Telegraph
The Telegraph
April, 1984. Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.
Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell’s fiction is often said to be our reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant as ever.
An edited and updated version of the script of this critically acclaimed adaptation, to tie in with the new Broadway production.
‘This is a staging that reconsiders a classic with such steely power that it chills brain, blood and bone.’ The Times ★★★★★
‘[A] pitilessly brilliant retelling of the doomed love affair between Winston and Julia.’ The Guardian ★★★★★
‘This risk-taking adaptation of George Orwell’s masterpiece is doubleplusgood.’ The Telegraph ★★★★★