Orwell - A Celebration
Trafalgar Studios, W1
8th June - 4th July 2009

Doublethinktheatre and TFP present an unforgettable celebration of George Orwell featuring the West End premiere of Dominic Cavendish’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Coming Up for Air, extracts from Nineteen Eighty-Four and two other rare shorts.

Hal Cruttenden reprises his unmissable performance as George Bowling, the hen-pecked insurance-man who flees the suburbs for the countryside of his childhood on the eve of World War Two. Coming Up for Air displays Orwell’s great gift for comic writing and grasp of middle class anxieties at a time of political and economic crisis. The evening also features a chilling distillation of Nineteen Eighty- Four’s Ministry of Love interrogation scene and performances of Shooting an Elephant and A Hanging.

With an additional complementary strand of talks and debates, and all profits going to the human rights group Liberty and The Orwell Prize, the stage is set is for an unprecedented celebration marking the landmark publication anniversaries of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Coming Up for Air.

"Funny and poignant, it feels as fresh and true as if written this year" **** Sunday Telegraph
"Pitch-perfect" **** Sunday Times

Directed by Gene David Kirk
Adapted by Dominic Cavendish
With Hal Cruttenden, Ben Porter and Alan Cox
Mon–Sat 7.45pm (10 June at 7pm); Matinees Thu & Sat 2.45pm
Tickets £15 Mon eves, £22.50 Tue–Sat (inc mats)/£15 Concessions
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