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Year of the Rat

March 27, 2008

Year of the Rat
Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse
Date Reviewed: 19th March 2008

Year of the Rat begins with George Orwell (Hugo Speer) alone on the Scottish isle of Jura banging out 1984 on his archaic typewriter. He is joined by the strong-willed and independent Sonia Brownell (Claudia Elmhirst), the model for Julia in his totalitarian classic novel. Perhaps partly out of pity for Orwell’s loneliness and depression she whisks him off to bed in the first scene, with the audience treated to a fleeting glimpse of her assets.

But, just as with Winston and Julia in ‘1984’, this is no straight-forward romance. They are visited by the bombastic and arrogant Cyril Connolly (Orwell’s life-long friend and publisher of London’s trendy ‘Horizon’ magazine, played extravagantly by Nicholas Blane). A seriously objectionable misogynist, he is known in city circles as the ‘Dick of Death’ and he wastes no time in exposing said member to an aloof Sonia. Read more

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