About the book George Orwell 25 June 1903 21 January 1950 8 th June 1949 Dystopian Novel Totalitarian State based on Soviet Union amp Nazi Germany Based in England The Party thought police 2 Minutes of Hate ID: 717778
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1984
By George OrwellSlide2
Big Brother is watching youSlide3
About the book
George Orwell (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950)
8
th
June 1949
Dystopian NovelTotalitarian State based on Soviet Union & Nazi GermanyBased in EnglandThe Party – thought police, 2 Minutes of HateFollow Winston SmithFun Fact: It has 42 different covers!Slide4Slide5
2 + 2 = 5Slide6
NY Times original review:
“a work of pure horror, and its horror is crushingly immediate.”
The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
Turned in 1984 into a film by Michael Radford
https://youtu.be/Z4rBDUJTnNU
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Adaptation into a play
BY ROBERT ICKE & DUNCAN MACMILLANSlide8Slide9
https://youtu.be/63WuTuIBRTk
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War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strengthSlide11
Original Cast & Crew
WINSTON
O’BRIEN
CHARRINGTON
MARTIN
SYME
PARSONS
MRS PARSONS
JULIA
Mark
Arends
Tim Dutton
Stephen FewellChristopher Patrick NolanMatthew SpencerGavin Spokes
Mandi SymondsHara YannasDESIGN
LIGHTINGSOUNDVIDEOASSOCIATE DIRECTORCASTING DIRECTORTRAINEE DIRECTORANIMAL HANDLER
Chloe LamfordNatasha ChiversTom GibbonsTim ReidDaniel Raggett
Ginny Schiller CDGCRoss LevyEAB AnimalsSlide12
Directors
ROBERT ICKE
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, 2016Slide13
STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn talks about 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J1_LqAPfkQ
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Sanity is not statisticalSlide15
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 starsSlide16
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”Slide17
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.Slide18
Themes
Dangers of Totalitarianism
Psychological Manipulation
Physical Control
Control of information & history
Language as mind controlTECHNOLOGYSlide19
MarketingSlide20
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words