Brave New World

• Reading (2013)
  New York, NY
• Original Broadway Production (2014) [announced]
  New York, NY

Based on the 1931 novel by Aldous Huxley

Five hundred years in the future, there is no war; no disease; no poverty. But perfection comes at a price. In order to maintain social stability, humanity has been stripped of the very things that make us human. True love has been replaced with free sex, art and faith have been replaced with mindless sport and distraction and citizens are brainwashed and drugged into a perpetual state of happiness. Humans don't even reproduce anymore; they are hatched in test tubes to avoid the dangers of family. But there are places - savage reservations - where people still live according to the "old" ways. These savages are fenced in and know nothing of the outside world, until one such savage - John - is given special permission to leave and experience the wonders of civilization. Two worlds collide in Huxley's provocative story about love, humanity and loss, set against the backdrop of a world where the most dangerous thing you can do, is to have an original thought.

Brave New World had been announced for a Broadway production in 2004 but it didn\'t move farther than a press release.