Northern Ballet: 1984 review " sleight of hand that chills and unsettles
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds Jonathan Watkins' gripping production employs subtleties of gesture, posture and phrasing to create a thoroughly modern take on George Orwell's classicGeorge Orwell's 1984 " a story of centralised surveillance, mutual monitoring and vanishing privacy " is a very contemporary tale. Yet with its gloomy ambience and dated video graphics, Northern Ballet's terrific new production mixes the…