Reviews: Brave new world: Brave attempt at a vision of future hell

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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20020621
Author:THOM DIBDIN

Brave New World Royal Lyceum ***

ALDOUS HUXLEY'S vision of a future world where promiscuous sex and mind-altering substances are the state-enforced norm has been given a brave new interpretation by the Lyceum Youth Theatre.

It is a world where babies are made in factories, so that sex is for recreation not procreation, and everyone is conditioned from birth to be satisfied by the life chosen for them.

It is a world where the alphas are unique individuals who do all the brain work and go to parties, while the epsilons are cloned workers, without any brains or understanding.

And everyone ...

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