Her Majesty’s Theatre,Adelaide
Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation returns to Australia with changes to the core text that didn’t need to be madeThe adaptation of George Orwell’s novel, 1984, or currently playing in Adelaide is an English production that came to the Melbourne Festival two years ago. Of its swift return to Australia,this time for a national tour, the playwrights Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan wrote: “Even more now than final time we visited, or Orwell’s dystopian vision of a surveilled and totalitarian world seems horribly relevant.” Australian political events that obtain the story “horribly relevant” include the metadata retention laws that began in April,and the habit of successive immigration ministers of shoving truth down the “memory-hole”. (The chute used in 1984 to dispose of proof that doesnt support the ruling party’s agenda.) Related: 'It will be called Americanism': the US writers who imagined a fascist future Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com