SEPT 17 - 21: NORTHERN Stage Ensemble bring George Orwell's classic work 1984 back to its terrifying glory in an exciting new adaptation appearing in Bath.

Spiked with adrenaline and adapted to satisfy our surveillance-hungry 24/7 dot com generation, Northern Stage Ensemble slit the raw nerve of live performance to present the story as you have never seen it before.

Directed by Alan Lyddiard and Mark Murphy, Orwell's harrowing vision of a merciless, totalitarian society controlled through Newspeak, Doublethink and the ever-present, all seeing Big Brother himself is dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century using break-neck visual theatre, music and large scale projection filmed in Moscow.

Post 1984, we live in a world where Big Brother and Room 101 have become buzzwords in popular culture, but both were born out of George Orwell's nightmare novel, published in 1948, with its futuristic world of all-seeing telescreens, and its insidious Ministries of Truth, Love, Peace and Plenty.

1984 is on stage at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday to September 21. Box office: (01225) 352487.