Animal Farm

Overview

It is a new world order and the pigs have taken over! I know what you're thinking, 'yeah, when pigs fly!', but you're just denying that you really know what I'm talking about. Yes, it's Animal Farm.

We all read it at high school, and now local dynamic theatre company Shake and Stir are bringing the text to life on the QPAC stage. So, if you avoided reading it and got by with the SparkNotes version instead, then here's a refresher: essentially the piggies on the Jones’ farm have realised that humans are parasites and kick old man Jones off the farm. They take control using the philosophy of Animalism, the crux of which is ‘All animals are equal’. All is good for a while with the animals living happily as pigs in mud, but then the quest for power rears its ugly head and finally the piggies decide that ‘All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’. Ugh, what a load of hogwash!

All hell breaks loose and, well, you know/may have forgotten the rest. Prepare to be as delighted as a you-know-what when you see what Shake and Stir have in store.