1984 play at George Washington High School!!!

Oct 23, I went to the play 1984 to see one of my friends act as Julia (main character!). The environment was really well done with serious, non-expressive ushers guiding you to your seat. After you sit down, there is a stage surrounded on three sides by the audience and a large screen with the pictures "Big Brother Is Watching" and a camera following movement in the audience. Overall, it was a pretty cool environment before the show even started. When the show did start, I got a little confused because I thought it was about WWII, but it was actually fictional... (I eventually got there:)). The acting was really good, even the secondary characters were really good. The plot was pretty understandable. The Party is really controlling, there is a guy who doesn't like the Party, he meets a girl, they fall in love (which is a thoughtcrime; a thoughtcrime is when you think something, anything that isn't what the Party has been telling you), they get married, they get caught, tortured, and broken. There were a lot of cool details, such as that at one point, Winston said something about 2+2=4 and then someone loyal to the Party said that that was wrong, that 2+2=5, or 7 or anything the Party said, and it became this big thing, and I realized that the Party was trying to control every. Single. Thought. If you refused, then you would get killed. Another thing was when Winston was talking to Julia about 'Newspeak,' which was a sort of English but dumbed down...? For example, the word 'bad' no longer existed, and better and best didn't exist either; the word for those was ungood, +good, and ++good; and for worse and worst is +ungood, and ++ungood, so one word could mean 5 different things!