Dystopian plays are rare, but from Samuel Beckett's Happy Days to Caryl Churchill's Far Away, there have been some standout original stage creationsThe arrival of 1984 at the Almeida theatre in London has prompted critics to resurrect the word "dystopia". But what does it actually mean? The term was coined by John Stuart Mill in 1868 and refers to an anti-utopia: in other words, a projection of present-day tendencies…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM on February 19, 2014