Theatre Royal in Winchester production of '1984'
1984 Evaluation
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On the 19th November 2002 myself, and a group of year eleven students
went to the Theatre Royal in Winchester to watch a play named '1984'.
The plays main theme was about a society being treated unfairly and
not being able to have rights or individuality. It showed people being
extremely restricted on what they could do both physically and
mentally.
Watching it, it made me feel fortunate to have the rights I have and
that I am not constrained on what I can do. The director wanted you
when watching, to feel uncomfortable and distressed as you were
watching one individual being tortured. The more torture shown, the
more privileged I felt to possess the rights I do have. A variety of
techniques were used to enforce the powerful message this play
presented. At the beginning, a group of soldiers pointed at the
audience and shouted 'Die Die' continuously, which made you feel
threatened and also at the same time involved within the play.
The set was quite basic yet effective. All the scenes featured two
large wooden walls, which were moved for different scenes. These walls
were used as a technique to change scene. When a new scene was started
the walls would be spun round to illustrate a new scene, which was
very effective. Throughout the play short videos were shown for a
variety of reasons. These included: emphasizing a point within the
play, to give new information to the audience or to add to the
dramatic effect of a particular scene.
Various lighting techniques were used including a spotlight. A
spotlight makes you focus on one particular part of the stage where
usually a scene is being acted. A spotlight can add tension and
increased dramatic effect to a scene, for example when soliloquies are
used. An additional lighting method used was to flash bright lights at
the audience to illustrate a scene change. This was very effective as
afterwards a new scene was taking place. As well as lighting
techniques, the props used were very successful in making the scene
more exciting and attention grabbing. One prop used was a counterfeit
electric chair. In this scene the main character was being tortured
using the electric chair. The smoke and sounds the chair was making
made the scene even more dramatic and made you sympathise with him
even more.
The main characters included a man named Winston, and a woman called
Julia who has already had already a couple of illegal love affairs.
Both characters were deprived of their rights and wanted the same
thing, freedom.
Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, these two men have forever changed the history of the world. Josef Stalin or Uncle Joe Stalin as his country knew him, was seen to the Russian people as a savior and a heroic leader. Adolf Hitler was known as the `Father of the Final Solution', which killed nearly six million of the sick, gypsies, Jews, homosexuals, and handicapped. Stalin and Hitler were both evil men who gained their power by manipulating others to get what they wanted. Both men were cold and calculating when it came to getting what they wanted. These two men had no respect for human life and did not have a problem killing people who stood in their way. They promised the people of their country a new world with a bright future; however, these faithful people never saw a bright future.
). Did Orwell realise quite what he had done in Nineteen Eighty-Four? His post-publication glosses on its meaning reveal either blankness or bad faith even about its contemporary political implications. He insisted, for example, that his 'recent novel [was] NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter)'.(1) He may well not have intended it but that is what it can reasonably be taken to be. Warburg saw this immediately he had read the manuscript, and predicted that Nineteen Eighty-Four '[was] worth a cool million votes to the Conservative Party';(2) the literary editor of the Evening Standard 'sarcastically prescribed it as "required reading" for Labour Party M.P.s',(3) and, in the US, the Washington branch of the John Birch Society 'adopted "1984" as the last four digits of its telephone number'.(4) Moreover, Churchill had made the 'inseparably interwoven' relation between socialism and totalitarianism a plank in his 1945 election campaign(5) (and was not the protagonist of Nineteen Eighty-Four called Winston?). If, ten years earlier, an Orwell had written a futuristic fantasy in which Big Brother had had Hitler's features rather than Stalin's, would not the Left, whatever the writer's proclaimed political sympathies, have welcomed it as showing how capitalism, by its very nature, led to totalitarian fascism?
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