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George Orwell’s 1984 comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre
Running up until 27th March 2010, George Orwell’s classic Nineteen eighty four will front Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre with director Matthew Dunster’s sinister reinterpretation. With a bold statement to think Kafka meets Kraftwork in the theatre’s publicity notes, Manchester is getting a fresh look at a brilliant masterpiece.
Written originally in 1949, the story follows Winston Smith as he tackles the extremes of Big Brother’s dystopian Oceania. At his job as a rewriter of history he finds reason rebel against the super-state in a romance with Julia. However, as the screw tightens and his rebellion is met with increasing oppression Winston and Julia must face the full might of the party.
Telling of the crushing command of a totalitarian state, the story has infiltrated modern culture, in particular, the advent and subsequent decline of the Big Brother franchise. It has become the benchmark for social science fiction and spawned the term Orwellian to denote the totalitarian critique inherent in George Orwell’s books Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm.
Tickets are between £8.50 and £25.50 and performances are 7.30pm Monday – Friday, 8pm Saturday and 2.30pm for Wednesday Matinees. The trailer for Matthew Dunster’s 1984 doesn’t look great, but hopefully the performances will be a lot better.
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