Review: 1984, Richmond Theatre, London
There is no doubting that Headlong's production of Orwell's dystopian novel is one of some power and tremendous ingenuity. I left the theatre feeling genuinely unsettled " but not moved. The truth was I didn't especially care what happened to Winston, or Julia, or Parsons, or Syme or any individual of Airstrip One. This is perhaps a fault of Orwell's text, I have never found the characters of 1984 especially believab…