‘Pull the rings from your noses!

Tear the saddle from your back!

Bit and spur shall rust forever.

Cruel whips no more shall crack.’

 

 

 

When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust the drunken farmer and take over the farm; all are awash in comradeship and high spirits. Too soon, however, the pigs, who consider themselves superior in intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power …. The result is a tense, fast moving drama, as fresh and relevant today as it was when it was first published in the summer of 1945.

This will be an exciting, enjoyable and challenging play. An ensemble cast of some 20 actors are playing multiple parts from hens to horses, donkeys to ducks, pigs to pigeons and not forgetting one or two humans too!

George Orwell’s Animal Farm adapted by Peter Hall, will be directed by Anne Segall and staged at the newly refurbished Walton Playhouse from the 15th to the 22nd April 2012.