ANIMAL FARM

“Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.”   George Orwell

At once funny and frightening, delightful and devastating, Animal Farm charts the fall of idealism and the rise of tyranny, after the animals of Manor Farm rise up against their oppressive human owner in a struggle for rights and equality.

Peter Hall’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Animal Farm, originally staged at the National Theatre in the 1980s, successfully translated Orwell’s political allegory to the stage.

Fresh and witty, whilst remaining true to the savagery of Orwell’s satirical novel,

it features a narrator and a cast of animals, effectively using music and physicality to convey the story’s themes of revolution, power and corruption.

Through text and song the play illuminates perfectly the succession of steps through which by persuasion, lies, force and propaganda, some of the animals become “more equal than others”. 

This amateur production of “Animal Farm (Hall)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk