Almeida; Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonOrwell's 1984 comes to tremendous, hellish life. And Joan Littlewood's satire still bitesIt is hugely ambitious to put this dystopia on stage. Hard to conjure up both personal threat and universal miasma. Harder still as the vision is expressed in phrases " Big Brother, doublethink, Thought Police " that are now mumbled over breakfast. Hardest yet when what was once an ult…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM on February 15, 2014