Burmese Days
59E59 Theatres, Off Broadway By Regina Robbins BOTTOM LINE: A gripping, disturbing period piece, based on a novel by one of the twentieth century's most important writers. Before achieving literary immortality with the novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell traveled to Burma (today called Myanmar) in the 1920s and served on its military police force. His experience there inspired his first novel, an exami…