Broadway audiences ‘faint, scream and VOMIT’ at THIS new show starring Olivia Wilde
A NEW show on Broadway is reportedly leaving its audience members fainting and vomiting.
Olivia Wilde and Tom Strurridge star in 1984
It’s a new staging of George Orwell’s classic 1984 - and it boasts Hollywood star Olivia Wilde.
According to the Washington Post, the disruption occurred during earlier previews in London, before it headed off to the Hudson Theatre in New York.
Vulture said in their review: “Blood is spattered and spit out; at least one beating about the face… [it’s] visceral, ghastly, and hair-raisingly vivid.”
An audience member is said to have fainted during the first Broadway performance last week, after some vomited and collapsed at the London showings.
The show has recently been showcased to reviewers
Olivia Wilde stars
New York Times’ Ben Brantley warned: “Though I usually don’t provide trigger warnings in my reviews, I feel obliged to do so here.
“The interrogations that Winston undergoes in the play’s second half are graphic enough to verge on torture porn.”
Writer Robert Icke said in the show’s defense: “You can stay and watch or you can leave — that’s a perfectly fine reaction to watching someone be tortured.
“But if this show is the most upsetting part of anyone’s day, they’re not reading the news headlines.
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Tom Sturridge plays the lead
“Things are much worse than a piece of theatre getting under your skin a little bit.”
1984 also stars Tom Sturridge, and was co-written and co-directed by Icke and Duncan Macmillan.
It is currently booking to October 8.