the play: general response questions, comments

What did you think of the play? Was there anything that confused you? Stimulated your thinking? Made you mad? Anything?

the play was good, the story idea was kind of confusing to me. i didn't really understand why they were holding him in that cell for the first half of the play. i thought that it was kind of confusing that they had the interegators in the room acting out the diary, but is was very well acted by the actors and i thought that they did a really good job.

Two plus two doesn't equal five *harumphs* Sill O'brien

cgiraud wrote:

What did you think of the play? Was there anything that confused you? Stimulated your thinking? Made you mad? Anything?

I loved the play, I liked the ending because I wasn't expecting O'Bryan to be Big Brother. I also liked the narration with the diary, and the news reports coming on when they were not expected.

This is my opinion. Big Brother= Some sort of governmental commitee that decides stuff.

I thought that the play was good becuase many of the topics through out it are becoming more and more prevolent today. at the end for example when O'Brian said that the way to control rebellion was to start it and to play a big role in the rebellion. i think that this quote was pretty cool because i sometimes have been able to use that strategy on my little brother. i also liked the part in the play when you could get a glimsp of the 3 different stories all happening at once. the flashbacks with winston, the prosecuters acting out winston's story and then the relationship between O'Brian, Big Brother and the prosecuters.

I really liked the play. It had a huge impact on me and it shocked me just how they would brainwash the public. Some of the most shocking things were when the neighbors with the children were so upset and screaming because they wanted to see the hanging. Another was then the party members were talking about how they hated when they tied up the prisoners feet because they wanted to see them flail when they were dying. Overall, the twist at the very end of how Big brother, Eastasia, Eurasia and the resistance were all made up to keep the society running by fear just amazed me. It was a great play.

The play was really good. I was confused almost the whole time but that just made it more interesting. Untangling all the facts and trying to reveal the story line was hard but worth it. The play really got me thinking about society nowadays. It really made me wonder if a world like that of 1984 could really happen. Also, it made me more aware of things like cameras. Also, I realized I was more heistant to say things in open places for fear or someone hearing me.

I thought that the play was very interesting because of the ideas it possed. It left the audience kind of hanging with the question what if this was or world? What if oru thoughts were monitored? The more I thought about it that crazier it seemed. To be killed for having thoughts about not liking Big Brother was just crazy and a bit over the edge.

The beggining of the paly confused me becuase i didnt quite know what was goin on becuase it seemed like they started the play at the end and worked back to the beggining. Somehting that made me mad about this play, was the fact that you could not do anything, even love another person. The think that surprised me the most, was how the little girl turned in her own father for thought crime, that shows how much ocntrol the government has over people.

I really liked the way the story went on. You were sort of dragged into the plot, especially when it immediately cut to Winston being tortured in the Ministry of Love.

The thing I liked the most about the play was the way Julia interacted with Winston and the Party Member acting as Winston. It made me feel sad that the Julia Winston had liked became a Julia that Winston didn't even know.

The play actually reminded me of Fight Club, because of the way it started at the end and then re-enacted everything from the beginning. I had read part of the book, so I had a basic idea of what was going on, but the twist at the end where the government turns out to be in control of the Goldstein Revolution was really intense. It sort of brought the whole scope of the play up to a new level, because you realize how powerful the government has become, that there is really no way these people are ever going to be free. It was actually pretty frightening because you begin imagining yourself in that situation, and all of the what-ifs, especially considering what's going on in the world currently.

I was confused with the man on the vents throughout the room. I don't see the need for this man being sneaky when he was very easily seen. I also don't understand why he had to move between the different vents. He can hear the same thing from any of them.
I thought it was really cool how there were only six actors for the entire play. It shows how good the actors are since they can play so many different parts.

I both liked and disliked it as it was all in one setting, in jail. But the actors did a good job of making that room come alive.

I thought the play was done quite well and that the actors were great. I've read the book during the summer so I was confused by why the they started out in the Ministry of Love. After I saw that they were doing flash "backs/reenactments" all was well. After the play I wondered why they decided to made the room look like it did because I pictured the M.o.L. to be colored a hospital white.

I thought the play was really good. At first, I was really lost and didn’t understand what was going on. I didn't realize the interrogators were recreating the past while interrogating Winston. I thought it was cool how they had just the right mix of humor and seriousness to keep the audience entertained. I also thought the ending was great because you had no idea that was coming.

The amazing thing about this book and play is that it can be paralelle to any subject or time period, it was written while the USA was fighting USSR, and is paralell to that, and now. Is the government hiding information. I loved how serious it was but then quickly was humorous.

Having the whole play take place in the interrogation room was a very creative way to tell the story without bothering with set or costume changes. It was confusing for a while, but they did a good job.
The humor sort of surprised me. I definitely wasn't expecting it to be funny, but it was a nice touch that made it more enjoyable overall.
Also I was surprised by the ending. Not only is the government successful in making Winston support them, but the revolution is engineered by Big Brother himself just to make sure it doesn't get too powerful.
Well, it's going to be interesting to actually read the book.

In the 1984 play, the main idea that I thought was really intriguing was the idea that reality is in the head. This seemed interesting to me because in real life we constantly say “reality check” to someone who is thinking outside the box, however, in this they are saying that reality isn’t real and instead whatever the government says is real. By pushing reality into the mind, the party is able to create a new world which they can mold to whatever they wish.
They use people’s fears to push them to insanity or great pain to blur their thoughts to the point that no one knows what is happening. At this point, they are able to reshape any thoughts the person may have and basically create a robot of the perfect person. The only glitch in this plan is that, in my opinion, the person still has the reality in them because there is no real way to wipe their memories clean and still have them function as a person. Deep down there must be some recollection of the true world and the world before Big Brother!

i thought it was interesting that in 1984, the governement had telescreens so that they could watch everything the citizens did to see if they did anything anti-governent/big brother.
we have a modern equivalent to this: phone tapping. the government can listen to your phone conversations to see if you do anything anti-U.S... just in case you're a terrorist. whats the next step after listening to what we say? watching us like 1984? are we turning into a communist society?

Winston was especially good at being tortured, making the transition from being sane (The interrogators liked to think he was insane) to insane (what was thought was sane). It is an interesting parallel to the Soviet Union in which political prisoners were treated as insane, sent to mental asylums as punishment.

I thought the play was very interestingly done. I loved how the flashbacks were done from the last scene of the play, the interrogation. At times it was confusing as to who was playing what part, but it was easy enough to figure out. I also like that the play had a lot of humor in it even though it's such a serious topic. I was strangely creeped out by the whole play though. It made me think about power and reality relating to the media and the government. Will we ever really know what is real?

I liked the play, but the fact that the entire thing took place on one set made the play boring. The play just wandered, because the background was always the same and it was hard to focus after a while. Since nothing ever got the viewers attention, the play drifted well off course