ANIMAL FARM
Directed by Megan Hillary,
ANIMAL FARM is a fable with a sting.
Details:
- 7:30 PM
- June 1-3; 8-10
- Founders Theater
- Pay What You Can – at the door
Show Info.:
Snowball and Napoleon! Just two pigs who take over the family farm? Or much better than that? Or much much worse?
Well…
Much has been written about the threat of Communism, but it remains to the late George Orwell, farsighted British author of the brilliant and frightening 1984, to expose the Russian experiment for what it really was: an idealist’s dream, converted by realists into a nightmare.
In a staged dramatic reading version of this timely allegory you will meet beasts whose prototypes dominated news headlines for many fearful years.
Opening on a note of joyous triumph for the creatures who have emancipated themselves from the cruel mastery of a human owner, the reading mounts inexorably to a climax of disillusionment in which the other animals discover themselves now subject to the rule of even more ruthless autocrats: the greedy, cunning pigs.
Intermingling humor and drama, ANIMAL FARM wrings the emotions of its listeners, leaving audiences shaken with the tale of a tragedy that happened in a mythical barnyard far, far away…. but could happen in our own back yard?
In this Section
- Production History
- 1990-1991 Season
- 1991-1992 Season
- 1992-1993 Season
- 1993-1994 Season
- 1994-1995 Season
- 1995-1996 Season
- 1996-1997 Season
- 1997-1998 Season
- 1998-1999 Season
- 1999-2000 Season
- 2000-2001 Season
- 2001-2002 Season
- 2002-2003 Season
- 2003-2004 Season
- 2004-2005 Season
- 2005-2006 Season
- 2006-2007 Season
- 2007-2008 Season
- 2008-2009 Season
- 2009-2010 Season
- 2010-2011 Season
- 2011-2012 Season
- 2012-2013 Season
- 2013-2014 Season
- 2014-2015 Season
- 2015-2016 Season
- 2016-2017 Season
- 2017-2018 Season
- 2018-2019 Season
- 30 IN 30: A Live Arts Retrospective
- Production History