![]() ![]() “The idea is to use Orwell as he would want, to build a better understanding of modern poverty and build support to solve homelessness.” “Now low pay, insecure work, high housing costs, debt and insufficient benefits are pushing people to the brink,” said the Rowntree foundation’s chief executive, Campbell Robb. But we are ashamed that it is so necessary,” said Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation, which has joined forces with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to run the event as a response to growing levels of homelessness in both capitals. “It is thrilling to be able to connect to our colleagues in Paris in this joint creative and intellectual piece of work. The planned immersive performance of readings from Orwell’s book and from other key works, including his essay The Spike and his novel A Clergyman’s Daughter, is to take place first in London and then in Paris, accompanied by modern testimony from refugees and rough sleepers and by poetry, musical performances and panel discussions. ![]() Leading actors and writers will gather in tribute to the great English author’s brave attempt to understand homelessness and poverty. This summer the influential ideas contained in Orwell’s first published book are to be turned into a one-off live theatrical event staged in both cities. ![]()
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