We expect to learn about the world of the play though conflicts between characters rather than through reams of description. On stage excessive exposition is tedious. In a novel exposition is simply part of narration and description itself can be interesting.
The entire first half of the book, like the entire first half of the play, is undramatic because it consist almost entirely of exposition to explain the way that Huxley’s futuristic society works. Yet, Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe (Nehassaiu deGannes), believes that it’s good for societies to experience controllable disturbances once in while since it makes them value their stability even more.Īs may be clear from this summary, although Marx and Watson may feel unhappy with their society, only Marx actively does anything to struggle against it and his struggle consists simply of not taking soma. Predictably, he finds everything about it upsetting and he causes disturbances wherever he goes. In Act 2 the focus shifts to John and his impressions of the perfect society of the World State.
Marx brings her (Sophia Fabiilli) and her son John (Eli Ham) back with him. In that “savage” society outside the bounds of the World State, they come across a woman who used to live in London but was left behind. The first act ends when Marx takes the nurse Lenina Crowne (Zoë Sweet) on a vacation to the pueblos of New Mexico. It’s clear that in the present day he would be a writer, but in the future Watson has trouble defining what the longing is that he feels. Meanwhile, Watson senses some force within himself, namely creativity, that has no outlet. “decanted”, is a loner, although isolation is discouraged, and experiments with not taking soma to see if he feels more real. All art except for the “feelies”, the successor to “movies”, has been banned and hatred of nature has been instilled. The euphoric drug soma has been invented for people to take whenever they feel any slight discomfort. Hypnopaedia is used to imbed society’s rules into the unconscious and to make members of each caste happy at belonging to their caste. The people hatcheries engineer people to belong to fives castes from Alpha to Epsilon, each with a specific function in society.
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Free love is encouraged and monogamy banned since marriage is seen as bottling up energy that could disrupt the stability of society. Hatched from test tubes, people no longer have parents or families. As part of his elevation to a higher rank Watson is given an extensive overview by the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning of how society has been carefully engineered to fulfil the two principal mottos of the State – “Community, Identity, Stability” and “Every one works for every one else”.
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The first act alternates its focus between Bernard Marx (Jesse Dwyer), an Alpha-Plus sleep-learning specialist and Helmholtz Watson (Adriano Sobretodo, Jr.), an Alpha Plus at the College of Emotional Engineering who has just been promoted to Head of Propaganda.
The action is set in the future in England in the year 632 After Ford (i.e., 2540ad), when England has been subsumed by a benevolent dictatorship known as the World State. Unfortunately, so is Walker’s adaptation.Īct 1 of Walker’s play covers chapters 1 through 9 of the novel Act 2 chapters 10 through 18. Huxley’s novel is a narrative, primarily descriptive and undramatic. Walker’s stage adaptation is very faithful to the novel – faithful, in fact, to a fault.
In reading it one of the main interests is how many of Huxley’s predictions have come to pass – virtual reality, in vitro fertilization of humans, mood-altering medication, the dominance of entertainment over art. Huxley’s work is one of the earliest dystopian novels in English. Litmus Theatre and Kabin combine to present the world premiere of Brave New World, Matthew Thomas Walker’s adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel of the same name. Litmus Theatre & Kabin, Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace, Toronto Written and directed by Matthew Thomas Walker
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