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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