'Not that fiction has to be faithful to biography to be true to life,
but playwright Roy Smiles stretches credulity when he has George
Orwell sum up his life: 'It's ridiculous, ironic, pathetic, I know,
but I'd have given it all up, all the success, all the novels, all the
praise, just to have been good with girls.' So much for the Orwell of
blisteringly clear prose, so much for his passionate loathing of
totalitarianism, his struggle to hone language into a weapon against
tyranny - just so many displacement activities to console him for
girlfriendlessness.'
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/reviews/story/0,,2267486,00.html
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