Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
A 1984 without the boot in the face
1984 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds/Touring
3/5
FOR a dystopian vision of the future, Northern Ballet’s adaptation of 1984 is curiously old-fashioned.
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