←Recommendations of A “Swift” 10 Minute Adaptation

A clever variation on Orwell’s 1984 in which Taylor Swift, AKA Big Sister, controls minds and playlists. A fun and funny satire!

This play satirizes Orwell, pop music, and the blind devotion of Taylor Swift fans with precision and pitch-perfect timing. Hayet's keen eye for parody is incredible and I think this would make an excellent supplement to a classroom study of the 1984 novel. Such a fun play!

This is a terrific comedy mashup. In 10 minutes, audiences will enjoy a pleasant spoof of George Orwell's "1984" and a biting satire on the ever-extended presence of pop music, its creators and fandom.

Steven Hayet is masterful here. Readers and audiences will immediately tell that Hayet enjoys Orwell's novels, but they'll also note the critiques toward pop culture. It's really a delicate balance to achieve: not so mean-spirited that the story turns ugly, but also not so lightweight that it's just piffle.

"George Orwell's 1989: A 'Swift' 10 Minute Adaptation" is fun and has a point of view....

A pitch perfect ten-minute parody of George Orwell’s dystopian novel and a gleeful satire of the omnipresence of Taylor Swift in our lives. Every reference and joke left me giggling. (And wildly enough, this play captured my experience listening to Folklore and Evermore in 2020 after years of resisting the call of the Swifties!)

Terrific 10-minute play mingling Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 with current pop culture (here, Taylor Swift is Big Sister) to hilarious effect. Loved it!

This delicious comic satire fascinates in that it is both timely and timeless at the same time. That's a neat trick that Steven Hayet plays to perfection.

This is a lot of cheeky fun, clever and funny on every page. Would be a blast to both stage and watch.

Hayet always finds comedy comic gold. Relatable through all the generations, the play combines our pop culture with our culture of celebrity and then again with Orwell’s dystopian future. And it works!

This version of “1989,” playing out in a swift ten minutes, with Taylor Swift as “Big Sister,” and set in a world where all songs must be about “relationships and love...” is genius. Absolute genius.

A brilliantly clever pop culture satire centering on the obsessive fandom of Taylor Swift. The references to both the pop singer and George Orwell are beautifully woven in throughout, and I was kept in my toes in anticipation of the next Swift lyric reference. Well-done!