April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him – and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye.

Headlong bring George Orwell’s dystopian vision of the future to life, as 1984 comes to the Liverpool Playhouse. This provocative new staging is created by director Robert Icke and writer Duncan Macmillan, and comes to Liverpool from Tuesday 29th October to Saturday 2nd November.