Theater Review: TimRobbins1 stars in and directs a timely revival for TheActorsGang of GeorgeOrwell's prescient political parable, '1984'
The Actors' Gang founder Tim Robbins in 2006 directed Michael Gene Sullivan's adaptation of the George Orwell masterpiece,, to acclaim and an international tour. At that time it was re-contextualized to reflect our national shame over Abu Ghraib and the Bush-era policies of "enhanced interrogation."
As the lights come up on a square space surrounded by the audience, Winston is being pilloried, recounting his thought crimes to four brutes dressed in costume designer Tess Vidal's tailored suits.
We learn that Winston and Julia carried on a relationship in a discreet hideaway over a shop. The scenes between the two are dramatized in flashback, employing a stand-in for Winston . Doing so drains the heart from those scenes and, subsequently, the play. The couple offer their services to Goldstein, reputed leader of a rebellion, and are eventually discovered, arrested and tortured.
As Julia and Party Member No. 2, Hanson provides whatever emotional ballast exists in the production, shifting artfully between her roles, from insouciant to iron-skinned. Bob Turton is maniacal as Party Member No. 3, with his preternaturally expressive face; and cluelessly hilarious as fellow worker Parsons who, in the end, blithely marches off to his own execution.
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