
Winston Smith struggles to survive physically, mentally, and psychically in a bleak world of totalitarian control, where Big Brother, the Thought Police, and Newspeak trample individual freedom and the capacity for autonomous thought. A single actor-performer embodies every role in the story, accompanied by an onstage string quartet, in a stage anatomy of fear and power.

Winston Smith struggles to survive physically, mentally, and psychically in a bleak world of totalitarian control, where Big Brother, the Thought Police, and Newspeak trample individual freedom and the capacity for autonomous thought. A single actor-performer embodies every role in the story, accompanied by an onstage string quartet, in a stage anatomy of fear and power.