The Loft Theatre - Animal Farm

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 […]

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The Loft Dancing at Lughnasa

DANCING AT LUGHNASA

“You leave convinced that this is one of Friel’s finest plays.” Michael Billington, Guardian Following Brian Friel’s award-winning play Translations performed at the Loft last year to great acclaim, we are now staging his greatly loved 1990 play Dancing at Lughnasa. This semi-autobiographical play, set in 1936 in the Ireland of his boyhood, features five unmarried […]

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Loft Web - Doctor Faustus

DOCTOR FAUSTUS

Christopher Marlowe’s notorious tale of vanity, greed and damnation will be staged-  with the creative team unconfined! –  in a new adaptation by David Fletcher. Faustus is a brilliant but embittered academic, a solitary scholar who has exhausted the confines of human knowledge. Frustrated with the futility of religion, law and science he is desperate […]

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