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Animal Farm (Bond)

Animal Farm is a fable with a sting. Much has been written about the threat of Communism, but it remained to the late George Orwell to expose the Russian experiment for what it really is; an idealist's dream, converted by realists into a nightmare.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Satire/Political Satire, Adaptations (Literature)
  • 105 minutes

  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student
Animal Farm is a fable with a sting. Much has been written about the threat of Communism, but it remained to the late George Orwell, farsighted British author of the brilliant and frightening 1984, to expose the Russian experiment for what it really is; an idealist's dream, converted by realists into a nightmare. 

In staged dramatic reading version of this timely allegory you will meet 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, 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 away but could happen in our own back yard.

Premiere Production: ANIMAL FARM was first presented at The Showtimers Studio Theatre in Roanoake, Virginia on September 29, 1961.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Local Celebrity Cameo, Ensemble cast, Minority casting, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Non-Traditional casting, Parts for Senior Actors, Multicultural casting
  • Casting Notes: No actual props are used in the production of ANIMAL FARM. All physical actions are indicated by the actors through pantomime.

    Each of the readers has one principal role with which he is identified, and one or more minor roles. In addition, each reader from time to time serves as a Narrator.

  • STOOL #1 - Narrator, Jones
    STOOL #2 - Snowball, Benjamin
    STOOL #3 - Squealer, Moses, Frederick
    STOOL #4 - Clover, Cat
    STOOL #5 - Boxer, Pilkington
    STOOL #6 - Major, Napoleon
    STOOL #7 - Mollie, Muriel

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    Animal Farm is a fable with a sting. Much has been written about the threat of Communism, but it remained to the late George Orwell, farsighted British author of the brilliant and frightening 1984, to expose the Russian experiment for what it really is; an idealist's dream, converted by realists into a nightmare. In staged dramatic reading version of this timely allegory you will meet 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, 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 away but could happen in our own back yard.

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