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...Johanna Mercer Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Watching Big Brother: Orwell’s 1984 at Niagara-on-the-Lake Johanna Mercer Beginnings...

...Richard Beacham Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Fallow F-: Orwell’s Animal Farm at the National Theater Richard Beacharn Sir Peter Hall’s adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm opened...

..., believing that George Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian show business allowed him to succeed “Iargc.1y through nianipulation society has not yet arrived, at least not in our country. If Big Brother of an image, rather than traditional protlucti\re cnterprisc.” Robert is watching e\*er-ywric,at least...

..., Los Angeles August 2016 Every writer knows despair. George Orwell paints a recognizably bleak portrait of the profession in his essay “Confessions of a Book Reviewer.” His subject — a besieged critic — suffers from malnutrition, poverty, and anxiety. Searching for a misplaced item sends him...

... Copyright © THEATER 1985 1985 Index to Volume XVI, 1984-85 Beacham, Richard. “Fallow Farm: Orwell’s Animal Farm at the National Mercer, Johanna. Watching Big Brother: Orwell’s 1984 at Niagara-on-the- Theater,” (Review) Vol. 16, no. 2, p. 30...

... a war, I took with me a volume of George Orwell’s Brussels-centered Europe, run by a caste of wartime writings. For more than a year I have Eurocrats accountable to none, has led to a collec- been reading this book off and on, in trains and in tive grudge, manifested...

... to be undermined on a deeper, more pervasive level. The rapidly resembling that of Orwell’s 1984. Semiotics provided the stage must become a laboratory for the production of meaning. Its means for understanding the ‘newspeak’ of the dominant culture, characters would be the signs for the systems...

... and New York, 1993 , 62 . Orwell , George 1984. New York, 1961 , 29 , 16, 11. Owen , Robert In Tod, Ian and Wheeler, Michael, Utopia . New York, 1978 , 83 . Plato , The Republic, in Great Dialogues of Plato . New York, 1984 , 174 . Wells , H.G. Men Like Gods...

... in Chile, or in any of our puppet police states; awkward things to mention in the days of the new "visual" theater, none on the enormities of corporate power, or the quiet spread of but they are what moved Aristophanes and Swift and Orwell and nuclear plants. That is not because these horrors are beyond...

... Studio 39,44 Johanna Mercer directed an adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 last year at David Cooper 19,20,21 the Shaw Festival in Ontario, where she is Director of the Workshop Donald Cooper 11,43 Program. Michael Cooper...

... Studio 39,44 Johanna Mercer directed an adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 last year at David Cooper 19,20,21 the Shaw Festival in Ontario, where she is Director of the Workshop Donald Cooper 11,43 Program. Michael Cooper...

...; Brett Bailey s violent tableaux. stilled lives 40 Ping Chong s a.m./a.m. The Articulated Man, La Mama, New York, 1982. Photo: Tobey Sanford a photographic retrospective 41 Mabou Mines Hajj, Public Theater, New York, 1983. Photo: Georgina Bedrosian stilled lives 42 George Orwell s 1984, adapted...

... of ideology, times, rather than a collection of stock phrases culture, law, government, national and interna- gummed together (to paraphrase Orwell) and tional policies, and humanitarian and military made presentable by sheer humbug. actions, as well as personal and collective This low road...

...-­ and intranational conflict and racial ten- sion. Coco Fusco’s Dolores from 10 to 10 (2001), Wafaa Bilal’s Domestic Tension (2007), Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project (2008 to present), and Ricardo 15 morrison...

... in Orwell’s Animal Farm, where a prize boar named Major informs his comrades, “all the evils of this life spring from the tyranny of human beings. Only...

... form of 1984, but how deed they fill the Becks’ living room walls with their massive yellows, it relates to Orwell’s prophetic utterance and what the nature of our with their bright, sculpture-like forms - and sensing a desire to survival may be are issues which have hardly stirred the thoughts...

..., under Orwell’s shadow, and was restaged in 1988 as the Warsaw Pact was disintegrating. North Atlantic does not comment directly on the NATO air war in Yugoslavia, or on any other armed conflict in which American troops have been engaged since the Cold War...

... and thereby Brenton’s understanding of the failure of the Fringe: he ultimately frightening the ladies - an echo of A Midrummer-Night’s Dream - sees the ruling society as remorseless, inescapable, incapable of and the 1984 setting clearly evokes Orwell. Brenton’s use in Epsom coexisting...

... now loosely called post-war. Forget the obscene question "which war?" and the answer: There is always a war, there is still a war. (George Orwell is cinema v6rit6 nowadays.) The difference between the earlier avant-gardes and this one is that the most recent has concentrated entirely...

... is on for a new way to set the spark. Of course we still have more to learn from adaptations of Orwell’s Animal Farm and Homer’s Odyssey. Gor- that. There are some plays that have to be done naturalistically, or don wanted to develop a permanent ensemble of actors, would seem to have to be done...