Last year, there was one word on every in-the-know theatregoer’s lips: Pomona. Alistair McDowall’s dystopian drama, which imagined the horrors lurking beneath an abandoned strip of land in the centre of Manchester, was treacle-black and wickedly funny, with a twisting, non-linear chronology that was correspondingly nightmarish. Continue reading “Alistair McDowall: the pioneering young playwright on setting a play on Pluto”
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Dawn King on adapting Brave New World
“We live in a dystopia now.” So claims playwright Dawn King, who’s adapted Aldous Huxley’s great dystopian novel, Brave New World. “We’re walking round with tiny computers in our pockets. Our government probably knows everything about us; our phone companies definitely do, even your calorie intake and heart rate. At the same time there are boatloads of people dying to get into countries like ours… it’s pure dystopia. We live in the future, and the future’s failed us.” Continue reading “Dawn King on adapting Brave New World”