James Dacre: are we living Brave New World's nightmare future?
The director of the first authorised stage dramatisation of Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World reflects on why its human-centred vision is more relevant than ever in today's selfish, technology-led consumer societyAldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 in the shadow of the first world war, the Wall Street Crash and a devastating flu virus that had claimed millions of lives. The Treaty of Versailles …