Of all the 20th century's literary dystopias George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has proved most tenacious, epitomised by its sinister promise: "Big Brother is watching you". But what happens when he stops watching? What becomes of us when the all-seeing eye of civil authority blinks shut for good, leaving us gazing, alone in perpetuity, at one another? It's the unsettling question posed by Jean Paul Sartre's Huis C…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:27PM on January 9, 2012