Animal Farm (2024) Show Trailer

Orwell’s enduring and devastating satire about the corruption of power will be brought vividly to life on stage in a brand new production of this compelling and iconic drama.

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master and take over, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality for all. However over time a cunning and brutal elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, gradually take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they once thought and find themselves ensnared as one tyranny is replaced with another.

A powerful re-telling of George Orwell’s chilling and timeless classic. Adapted for the stage by Ian Wooldridge.

Showing at #DerbyTheatre from Wed 28 Feb until Sat 16 Mar, 2024 📆

[mikeshoults]

Finally a production that takes the material seriously. Finally someone who understands that the story isn't about farm animals.
I'm tired of people treating this play as if it's a comedy. Parading around on stage oinking like pigs or clucking like chickens like it's some sad children's story.
Animal Farm is about tyranny, about oppression, about death. Its about the hundred imof millions of starved, enslaved, persecuted exploited people under tyrannical communist regimes. About the Stalin's, Pol Pots, CCP, and many other regimes that all follow the same pattern..
Baying like a horse is a sick mockery of all that suffering and oppression