A NEW staging of George Orwell’s Animal Farm opens the new year at Leamington’s Loft Theatre.
The political satire 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 was originally staged at the National Theatre in the 1980s. It features narrators and a cast of animals, using music and physicality to convey the story’s themes of revolution, power and corruption.
Through text and song the play illuminates the succession of steps through which by persuasion, lies, force and propaganda, some of the animals become “more equal than others”.
Director Mark Crossley said: “Ever since its publication, the story has bristled with political parallels, most notably Orwell’s withering view on how Communism corrupted itself. To some degree, this analogy sustains, but in this third decade of the 21st century, there are profound new resonances that speak afresh to current generations.”
The production runs from January 21 to 31.
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