Aquila Theatre Company will return to Purdue University with George Orwell’s ‘1984’

The Aquila Theatre Company will perform “1984” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16-17 in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse at Purdue University (Courtesy photo) Download image

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Aquila Theatre Company will perform “1984” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16-17 in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse at Purdue University. 

This show is presented by Purdue Convocations with support from Purdue’s Office of the Vice Provost for Student Life, the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University Honors College, Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts, the Brian Lamb School of Communication, Hilton Garden Inn, Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts, and the Leonora and Harold Woodman Endowment for Theatre. 

Swati Srivastava, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, will hold a pre-show meetup before each performance at 6:30 p.m. in Stewart Center, Room 310.  

For 70 years, George Orwell’s uneasily prescient novel “1984” has both unmoored readers from recognizable reality and helped them ruminate on the society they see. An influential, evocative work of fiction that’s timeless and timely, “1984” finds everyman Winston Smith unexpectedly challenging a world in which totalitarian government reigns supreme, technology is a weapon of propaganda and control, and big brother is always watching.   

Tickets are $28 for adults and $22 for children 18 years and younger, Purdue students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students. Tickets are available at the Stewart Center box office at 765-494-3933 or 800-914-SHOW. Group tickets are also available to groups of 10 more. Call 765-494-3933 for more details or visit https://purdue.edu/convocations/group-sales/.

Initiated in 1902, Purdue Convocations was one of the first professional performing arts presenters in the United States. Each year, Convocations offers the region 30-40 performances of widely varying genres: Broadway-style shows, theater, dance, children's theater, world music, jazz, and chamber music, along with rock, pop, country and comedy attractions. With a vision for connecting artists and audiences in artistic dialogue and for drawing in academic discourse, Purdue Convocations aims to promote frequent exposure to and familiarity with human cultural expression in a multitude of forms and media. 

Source: Abby Eddy, Purdue Convocations director of marketing, 765-494-9712, aeeddy@purdue.edu

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