Brave New World

With the (unbelievably first) stage adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ showing at the Darlington Civic, I took in this afternoon’s performance and found it vibrant, absorbing, and still worryingly relevant; it was well received by a small but appreciative audience with a demographic evenly split between school children presumably studying the book for GCSE and retirees like me, who probably last read it when they were that age, back in the 1970s.