This play is set in a world the same as ours, but where 1984 is a historical document not a novel; it is the world in which the Appendix to 1984 on Newspeak was written. You are visiting a museum dedicated to the text, and the exhibit you are in tells the story that is in the novel.

Written in 1948, George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 envisages a dystopian future of mind control, constant surveillance, and control of even interpersonal and family relationships by a totalitarian state, The Party, and its figurehead, Big Brother. Winston Smith, a mid-level party member at the Ministry of Truth falls in love with Julia, who is not as she first seems, and together they seek to oppose The Party through a shadowy group called the Brotherhood.