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1984

1984 at Birmingham Rep

Friday 17 July 2026
Saturday 18 July 2026

About the show

Young Rep Seniors present a tense, unsettling and strikingly contemporary staging of George Orwell’s dystopian classic, adapted for stage by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan.

Winston Smith is an ordinary man trapped in an extraordinary nightmare. He must fight to stay human under a regime that rewrites reality, watches every move and crushes even the smallest flicker of independent thought.

In this world, truth is fragile. Fear is weaponised. Rebellion is dangerous – and sometimes, heartbreakingly, impossible.

This is 1984 reimagined for our current moment: immediate, gripping and uncomfortably impossible to ignore.

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