Arcadia Scotland

Our first event of Fall 2015, Brave New World at the King's Theatre, will be taking place tomorrow evening. Please click on the following link to read more about the fantastic performance taking place at the Royal and Derngate theatre in Northampton: Brave New World

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s ground-breaking novel bursts into life on stage in a first ever stage adaptation by award-winning playwright Dawn King. Brave New World is a dystopian, satire novel set in a futuristic world, touching on the dangers of technology, genetic engineering and consumerism. The theatre performance ties in with the Life of the Mind theme –Protest. Some argue that Huxley’s Brave New World was a protest against Fordism –mass production, homogeneity, predictability and consumption of disposable consumer goods. Huxley gives Fordism a status beyond industrialism –that of a new religion in its ability to answer all social questions. The obsession with materialism is explicit in the depiction of under-consumption as a crime against society.