Animal Farm
Running: 19 Nov 2007 - 24 Nov 2007
Start: 19:30
by George Orwell (adptd by Peter Hall)
directed by Pat Dyson & Sheila Wright
19 - 24 November 2007
Wildman Theatre
First published in 1945, George Orwell's savage satire Animal Farm expressed his profound disillusionment with Soviet Communism, whose principles he had spent much of his career defending. It's an allegorical tale of the animals overthrowing their hated oppressor Farmer Jones and forming a socialist utopia - only to discover the hard way that, as Orwell so memorably put it, "some animals are more equal than others".
A child will enjoy it for the "fairy story" it tells of how animals are smarter than adult humans, whilst adults will be entertained by the hidden jokes and symbolism that constantly poke fun at the delusions of government. This classic parable beautifully and honestly illustrates the inevitable outcome of a totalitarian regime.
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