Lyn Gardner described the show as "One of the funniest plays you'll ever see about depression – and possibly one of the funniest plays you'll ever see, full stop" in her review for The Guardian.

April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. Orwell’s ideas have become our ideas; his fiction is often said to be our reality. The “definitive book of the 20th century” (The Guardian) is re-examined in a radical new staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever. 以下媒体全给出五星的评价： The Observer The Times Financial Times Time Out Whatsonstage