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The game is a fresh riff on a familiar story, and by using its branching storylines to explore Orwell’s political commentary, it provides a new way to look at “Animal Farm.”
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Best building: Berkeley Way West UC Berkeley’s psychology, public health and education departments may have been disappointed to have to pack up their old offices when, in 2018, they were told they’d be moving to the new building on Berkeley Way. Little did these faculty and staff members know that
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The play, which first premiered in the U.K. in 2013 before spreading to Broadway in 2017 and then BareStage this past weekend, progressed in much the same way, attempting to adapt the book as closely as possible for the stage.
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Dystopian literature has the license to freely explore new modes of thinking about government, individual rights, oppression, liberty and language.
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I told Goodreads which books by men I had just read, and Goodreads, understandably, would automatically recommend other books by men.
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TheatreFIRST has declared itself dedicated to amplifying marginalized stories and “making theatre a place where social justice happens.
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“1984” centers on a desolate dystopia, where ideologies are alarmingly familiar to the state of our federal government.
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After arriving at my friend’s house and talking about pure nothingness for a few minutes, it became clear that we were bored and needed something more than each other’s company to have a good time. She suggested we play some video games, which I happily agreed to — “Mario Kart”
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As the NSA surveillance scandal surges onward, it’s safe to say a degree of Orwellian political skepticism is necessary to accurately examine American society — especially in the operation of its food industry. In 1946, Orwell proclaimed, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” Indeed,
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