Animal Farm is a tragic tale that happened in a mythical barnyard far away but could happen in our own back yard. This fable with a sting by George Orwell, the farsighted British author of the brilliant and frightening novel 1984, exposes the idealist’s dream, converted by realists into a nightmare. This timely allegory features beasts whose prototypes have 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, but eventually results in 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. ANIMAL FARM intermingles humor and drama; wringing the emotions of its audiences and leaving them shaken.
Premiere Performance: October 27 at 20:00 hrs in THEATER AM OLGAECK
also November 3 / 9 / 10 / 17 at 20:00 hrs– THEATER AM OLGAECK
Featuring Helenita Catita, Helen Gallego, Tonia Hernandez, Sylvia Owens, Kirsten Schulze, Martin C. Jelonek, Ahmed Saiied, John Peacock, Simon Bergmoser, Derrick Jenkins, Ed Gaietto, Micha Weber
Set & Costumes by Enel
Photos by Uka Meissner deRuiz
Directed by Charles C. Urban
New English American Theater Stuttgart 