AUSTRALIA // READING
Melbourne Festival and the Wheeler Centre present
GEORGE ORWELL’S 1984
A LIVE READING
Those who control the present,
control the past and those who
control the past control the
future.
In a special event presented by the
Wheeler Centre and Melbourne
Festival, we’ll revisit Orwell’s
prescient novel of power and
politics with a live reading in a
very apt setting—the Legislative
Assembly Chamber in Victoria’s
Parliament House.
Over eight hours, up to 30 people
will take their place at the
Speaker’s chair to bring Orwell’s
Nineteen Eighty–Four to life in a
marathon relay reading.
FUNDED THANKS
TO PATRON DONATIONS
Join us for a little or a long while
at the heart of power; sit in the
chairs of state leaders in the
debating area, or scrutinise every
movement from the galleries
upstairs.
Don’t miss the opportunity to
experience Nineteen Eighty–Four
as read by your favourite political
commentators, politicians past
and present, satirists, journalists
and celebrities.
PARLIAMENT HOUSE
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
CHAMBER
SAT 17 OCTOBER 10AM — 6PM
FREE
Bookings at wheelercentre.com
For updates on participants
and to find out how you can
take part in the reading, visit
www.festival.melbourne
www.festival.melbourne #melbfest
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