Surveillance state takes centre stage in new 1984 production
Producers of a new version of George Orwell's classic suggest his dystopic fiction is chillingly relevant' Michael Billington's four-star review of 1984' Top five theatrical dystopiasOn 8 June 1949, George Orwell published his seminal novel telling of a future society held captive by the ever-watchful oppressive gaze of Big Brother. The author's vision of 1984 was a world of "perpetual war, omnipresent government sur…