Guests including Ed Miliband and Fiona Bruce join Sonia Friedman for West End return of 1984

1984 is adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, set and costume designed by Chloe Lamford, with lighting designed by Natasha Chivers, sound designed by Tom Gibbons and video designed by Tim Reid.

George Orwell’s 1984, published in 1949, is one of the most influential novels in recent history. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell’s fiction is often said to be our reality.