![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each performance will be accompanied by discussions and workshops on the contemporary challenges of homelessness and poverty. The performances – in London on 6th June as part of UCL’s Festival of Culture, and Paris in late September – are by the same team who produced the acclaimed reading of the whole of 1984 on a single day in 2017. In a multi-disciplinary production, modern stories from the streets are experienced alongside the Orwell text. Readers include writers, activists, politicians, campaigners and young people who have been homeless. The performance also draws on other Orwell work including his diaries, The Spike and A Clergyman’s Daughter. Orwell wrote Down and Out in Paris and London as a result of his own experiences sleeping rough and working on what would now be called zero-hours contracts in hotel kitchens. George Orwell’s classic book on 1930s poverty in Paris and London is to be brought to life in an immersive performance that asks searching questions about homelessness today. “The evil of poverty is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually.” – George Orwell ![]()
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