April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, 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.
Headlong bring George Orwell’s dystopian vision of the future to life, as 1984 comes to the Liverpool Playhouse. This provocative new staging is created by director Robert Icke and writer Duncan Macmillan, and comes to Liverpool from Tuesday 29th October to Saturday 2nd November.
Sell a Door Theatre Company is set to return to Liverpool’s Capstone Theatre with an exciting and unmissable performance of George Orwell’s definitive classic, 1984. Matthew Dunster’s faithful adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian Science Fiction novel follows on from the company’s previous tour of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Winston Smith rewrites history for the Ministry of Truth but when he’s handed a note that says simply ‘I love you’ by a woman he hardly knows, he decides to risk everything in a search for the real truth. In a world where cheap entertainment keeps the proles ignorant but content, where war without end is always fought and the government is always watching, can Winston possibly hold onto what he feels inside? Or will he renounce everything, accept the Party’s reality and learn to love Big Brother?