{"id":4341,"date":"2024-10-26T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2024-10-26T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T18:24:17","slug":"theatre-charlottes-timely-production-of-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2024\/10\/26\/theatre-charlottes-timely-production-of-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre Charlotte\u2019s Timely Production of\u00a01984"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I first read George Orwell\u2019s 1984 <\/em>in 1970 at the recommendation of my high school English teacher. At the time, the year 1984 seemed far off in the future to me.  After all, fourteen years seems like a long time to a teenager.  However, I remember worrying if Orwell\u2019s dystopian vision of the future would actually come to pass.   Now the year 1984 seems like a long time ago to me, but I\u2019m still worried about Orwell\u2019s dystopian vision.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much of what Orwell incorporated in his novel is now part of our day-to-day lives.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The mass surveillance that we associate with Orwell\u2019s phrase \u201cBig Brother is watching you\u201d is a real concern in contemporary America.\u00a0\u00a0Like the two-way televisions in\u00a01984<\/em>, our cell phones and digital home assistants have the ability to monitor our whereabouts and, to some extent, our activities.\u00a0\u00a0Like the double-speaking propagandists who run the \u201cMinistry of Truth\u201d in\u00a01984,\u00a0<\/em>many of today\u2019s politicians twist the meanings of words to such an extent that a word like \u201ctruth\u201d is used when telling a lie.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s against this backdrop that Theatre Charlotte is currently bringing a theatrical production of\u00a01984\u00a0<\/em>to Charlotte.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Theatre Charlotte\u2019s production of 1984 <\/em>runs from now to November 10 at Theatre Charlotte’s space at 501 Queens Road.  The play is based on an adaption of Orwell\u2019s novel by Robert Owen, Wilton E. Hall, Jr., and Williams A. Miles, Jr.  It is directed by Chris Timmons, the Artistic Director of Theatre Charlotte.  The cast includes Chris Patton as Winston, Dionte Darko as O\u2019Brien, and Isabella Frommelt as Julia. A post-show discussion will take place after the performance on November 1. More information and tickets are available here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I congratulate Theatre Charlotte on bringing this timely production of1984 <\/em>to the stage.  One of the reasons Theatre Charlotte is such a legendary Storied Charlotte institution is that it regularly produces plays that speak to our time and our community, and its production of 1984 <\/em>is a prime example of this worthy tradition.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first read George Orwell\u2019s 1984 in 1970 at the recommendation of my high school English teacher. At the time, the year 1984 seemed far off in the future to me.  After all, fourteen years seems like a long time to a teenager.  However, I remember worrying if Orwell\u2019s dystopian vision of the future would actually come to pass.   Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storied-charlotte","tag-george-orwell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}