George Orwell wrote his dystopic novel, 1984, in 1944, a year which still presented the possibility of a dangerous tyrant taking over Western Europe. It was and still is, a cautionary tale aimed at rousing public awareness of the urgent need to defend the freedoms we enjoy.
1984 the play didn’t go on stage until 1983 when two young British playwrights, Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke, took on the task of transforming the novel into a riveting play which was first performed in Nairobi in 2022 by senior students at Braeburn school. And as of last night, it just re-opened at Braeburn Theatre to run through the weekend. But it’s been transformed again in a more minimalist, Brechtian style by a new theatre company called Under Debate (UD).
