Posted on 06/25/2017 7:16:41 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Olivia Wilde, Tom Sturridge and Reed Birney star in the bold staging of George Orwell’s dystopian novel.
The play 1984 is not for the average theatergoer. Adapting George Orwell’s dystopian novel — set in a future when critical thought is suppressed by a totalitarian regime, ostensibly overseen by a party leader known as Big Brother — the new Broadway staging includes special effects like strobe lights and jackhammer sound effects, in addition to the plot’s extreme torture scenes.
Throughout the London transfer’s previews, attendees have fainted, thrown up and screamed at the actors from their seats. After one performance, some audience members were so on edge that they immediately got into a heightened argument. Cops were called; charges were pressed.
“I’m not surprised, since this experience is unique, bold and immersive,” Olivia Wilde, who broke her tailbone and dislocated her rib during previews, told The Hollywood Reporter after Thursday’s opening-night performance (during which one attendee passed out). “It allows you to empathize in a visceral way, and that means making the audience physically and emotionally uncomfortable.”
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My old uncle wears a diaper as a form of protest against a bad colon.
It still amazes me that Brave New World was written in 1931.
Take a “soma” than.
It would be amusing to see how the Left double speaks its way around "INGSOC" (English Socialism) being the political ideology of the totalitarian government in 1984.
But they are still claiming that Nazism (National Socialism) was "right-wing" totalitarianism.
It would be amusing to see how the Left double speaks its way around "INGSOC" (English Socialism) being the political ideology of the totalitarian government in 1984.
But they are still claiming that Nazism (National Socialism) was "right-wing" totalitarianism.
#10. Was the TRON remake before or after her appearing on the series “House”?
She was a hauntingly beautiful woman. Unfortunately beauty was only skin-deep and the brain remains on irrational.
I think we’re becoming more like Brave New World than 1984.
The Soviet Union was much closer to 1984 and I imagine North Korea is a carbon copy.
1984 was a warning, pure and simple.
Orwell was writing about the world of 1948 in 1984. A world of shifting national allegiances, media propaganda, and intrusive governments.
the article calls Orwell’s classic 1984 a right wing classic.
Funny I have always thought of it as an indictment of leftist totalitarian governments such as Soviet Russia, Mao’s China...and the beat goes on...
lying leftists and their lying media...
But it is a conservative classic for the very reasons you mention: as “an indictment of leftist totalitarian governments...”
Though you are right in that the author, lacking the brainpower to engage the likes of Orwell and his work, stupidly uses “Right Wing” as an epithet.
I wonder if she even understands that doing so paints her as a disciple and champion of Big Brother.
Stupid...twit.
There is a level of Deep Stupidity here.
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