Still, if King’s dramaturgy frustrates, her dialogue is sharp and James Dacre’s production dazzles. We understand the points being made but, in spite of fine performances, we don’t feel their impact. Consequently, John’s fate comes across as melodramatic and sensationalist, while the extended ending seems bathetic and banal. The ensuing culture clashes between poetry and pragmatism (John’s argument with Sophie Ward’s world controller) and between love and sex (encounters with Olivia Morgan’s hatchery technician, Lenina) are interesting but emotionally unengaging. Joyce, Photography Ron Garcia, Music Daniel Licht, Production Design Curtis A. John’s feelings have been shaped by his reading of Shakespeare. Crew Directors Leslie Libman & Larry Williams, Teleplay Dan Mazur & David Tausik, Based on the Novel by Aldous Huxley, Producer Michael R. We are addressed from the stage as if we were new recruits being inducted into the London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre where embryos are genetically manipulated to produce socially appropriate adults – from Alpha intelligentsia to Epsilon drudges.īernard, a tetchy, self-consciously substandard Alpha (Gruffud Glyn), brings John the Savage (William Postlethwaite) back from the Reservation, where people still marry, have children and live in families. Writer Dawn King (acclaimed for Foxfinder, 2011, and Ciphers, 2013) effectively introduces the audience directly into Huxley’s dystopia.

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