As our adventure in London slowly draws to an end, I'd like to reflect on some of the our most memorable favourite/worst things.
Favourite Indian Food - Vegetable/Chicken Tikka Masala from the Tamarind Tree near Regents Park.
Favourite Sitcoms - The Office, Modern Family, Big Bang Theory, House of Cards, Homeland, Scrubs
Favourite Sushi - You Me Sushi
Favourite Vegetarian Place - Food For Thought in Covent Garden
Favourite London foods - Falafels, Bruschetta, Burritos
Worst things about London - The noise along Northumberland Avenue! Small spaces. It is expensive! Pollution is bad. The constant grey rainy weather days are depressing. All the walking can be tiring. London is crazy over Easter and Christmas.
Favourite things about London - The ability to just walk around with complete peace of mind. The vast amount of things to do. Things just work. Service is great. The parks are beautiful. Self service tills at shops and the post office :) it doesn't matter how you dress, nobody cares :)
Lessons learnt - One can survive with very little. The less you have, the less worries you have. The only way that we can change the world is by either changing the institutions (which is virtually impossible!) or by changing the way people think (which too is virtually impossible!).
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Watching 1984 at The Playhouse
We decided to go watch George Orwell's play 1984 at The Playhouse, which is just down our road.
I have hear about the book and was interested to see how they would do the play, as it was written in 1949 and was about what the world would be like in 1984 and Big Brother is watching you!
It was brilliantly done. A thought-provoking play, somewhat disturbing as the world they describe is pretty much like the world is today.
"Big Brother" is like a communist party which controls everything and everyone.
It paints a world where everybody is watched all the time and ignorance to the truth is bliss. "Big Brother" will make you believe what they want you to believe. They will torture those who seek the truth and try to go against "Big Brother".
People wear only clothes that the party gives them, eat only what the party allocates to them and speak how the party want them to speak!
Newspeak is the new language which has a smaller amount of words. For example, there's the word "good" and "ungood" - you don't need the word "bad" :)
There is "thought crime" and "though police" so people are not allowed to have impure thoughts or wish to go against the party.
The story revolves around a character Winston Smith who finds love but wants to overthrow the party. He seems like a madman. The play is done quite cleverly, with repetitions of the same/similar scenes and jumping from scene to scene, you often don't know what is real from Winston's point of view.
The party tortures Winston until he accepts the party and becomes ignorant like the rest of the people, which they refer to as sanity.
If you are up for an intense, thought-provoking play, I highly recommend it :)
I have hear about the book and was interested to see how they would do the play, as it was written in 1949 and was about what the world would be like in 1984 and Big Brother is watching you!
It was brilliantly done. A thought-provoking play, somewhat disturbing as the world they describe is pretty much like the world is today.
"Big Brother" is like a communist party which controls everything and everyone.
It paints a world where everybody is watched all the time and ignorance to the truth is bliss. "Big Brother" will make you believe what they want you to believe. They will torture those who seek the truth and try to go against "Big Brother".
People wear only clothes that the party gives them, eat only what the party allocates to them and speak how the party want them to speak!
Newspeak is the new language which has a smaller amount of words. For example, there's the word "good" and "ungood" - you don't need the word "bad" :)
There is "thought crime" and "though police" so people are not allowed to have impure thoughts or wish to go against the party.
The story revolves around a character Winston Smith who finds love but wants to overthrow the party. He seems like a madman. The play is done quite cleverly, with repetitions of the same/similar scenes and jumping from scene to scene, you often don't know what is real from Winston's point of view.
The party tortures Winston until he accepts the party and becomes ignorant like the rest of the people, which they refer to as sanity.
If you are up for an intense, thought-provoking play, I highly recommend it :)
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