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George Orwell
n a world where the perpetuation of war is justified by the fight against terrorism and our rulers have lost credibility, where freedom of speech is only a memory, a group of agents conducts the interrogation of Winston Smith following the discovery of his diary, to force him to to confess his crimes against the state and his latest rebellion: his love for 9752 Larson, aka Julia.
"In the new millennium we are induced to to think that we are under constant threat from from terrorists, foreigners, outcasts, the kid in the drugstore or the black kid on the corner!
to every suicide attack, Osama Bin Gangsta, the radical, the abusive nanny, the environmentalist is out there to hurt you, so please don't mind that the Nation that your parents helped to found was stolen from you from under your nose, and you are losing rights won over hundreds of years of bloody struggle.
Doubt is betrayal, and Fear will distract you, and the message that comes through is: you must be afraid, very afraid.
Big Brother says: Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, War is Peace."
Michael Gene Sullivan
Michael Gene Sullivan adaptation
directed by Tim Robbins
with
Pierre Adeli
Brian Finney
Colin Golden
Lee Hanson
Will McFadden
Bob Turton
lights Bosco Flanagan
sound David Robbins
stage director Cihan Sahin
assistant stage manager Dora Kiss
presented under license from AM Heath
on behalf of the heirs of Sonia Brownell Orwell
Dianna Oliva-Day photographs
a production** The Actors' Gang**
artistic director Tim Robbins
associate artistic director Cynthia Ettinger
chief operating officer Simon Hanna
in collaboration with **CRT Milan **and Change Performing Arts
tor, director, screenwriter, and producer of films and plays, Robbins has won numerous awards, including an Oscar for best supporting actor for Mystic River, and the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for Robert Altman's The Player--The Play ers._ Dead Man Walking_, for which he was director, screenwriter, and producer, has won numerous awards including an Oscar for best actress for Susan Sarandon. Robbins is also artistic director of Actors' Gang, the theater company he founded in 1982 that has staged more than 80 productions, earning hundreds of awards. His show Embedded ran for more than four months at New York's Public Theater, always selling out, and then embarked on a tour that touched London and much of the United States. With the Actors Gang, he staged a much-discussed and highly successful adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, which was presented on four different continents. Robbins and his company promote educational programs in Los Angeles-area schools, and for the past five years they have begun to offering theater workshops involving inmates of California city correctional institutions.