The riveting, timely 1984 isn't quite as scary as the real world
Isabella Biedenahrn
After President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, George Orwell’s 1984 flew off the shelves. Two days later, when senior adviser Kellyanne Conway used the phrase “alternative facts” to defend Press Secretary Sean Spicer making false claims about Trump’s inauguration crowd size, those sales continued, rising a nearly unfathomable 9,500 percent. It would seem like there couldn’t be a better time for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s 1984 stage adaptation — which takes place in a world where thoughts can be considered crimes, and there are a designated two minutes each day for citizens to spew hate at national enemies — to storm Broadway, after successful runs in both the U.K. and Los Angeles.
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