ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell – Andrej Rozman Roza
Stage Direction: Vito Taufer
Set, Puppets and Costumes Design: Barbara Stupica
Music: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Language Coach: Tatjana Stanič
Assistant Director: Daniel Day Škufca
Lighting Design: Tomaž Štrucl
Video Animation: Neža Trobec
Puppet Technology: Zoran Srdić, Mitja Ritmanič
PERFORMERS:
Brane Vižintin
Iztok Lužar
Gašper Malnar
Jure Lajovic
Martina Maurič Lazar
Polonca Kores
Nina Skrbinšek
Urška Hlebec
Stane Tomazin g.a.
Premiere: 26th April 2012, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Big Stage
Head of Production and Stage Lighting: Alojz Sedovnik
Stage Lighting Technician: Danilo Korelec
Stage Technician: Alojz Milošič
Puppets, Set and Costumes Production: Iztok Bobić, Zoran Srdić, Sandra Birjukov, Marjeta Valjavec, Jernej Remše, Delo osvobaja d.o.o., Gregor Lorenci, Restavratorstvo Mali
George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, which was successfully published by the author after several failed attempts only in August 1945, has been read for quite a long time as a harsh critique of Stalin’s totalitarianism, although its model actually suits any kind of totalitarianism, and even the plutocracy we are witnessing today. So, the questions at hand are: Is a positive utopia possible at all? What is it that we are to offer to our youth as an alternative, if just any system can degenerate into its own version of totalitarianism? Should we offer them a ready made system or is it better to impart values to them and just keep warning them of the possible mistakes? And, if they do recognise the present in the past and learn for the future, will we indeed be hitting the paved road to the better future?
»The actual details of the story did not come to me for some time until one day (I was then living in a small village) I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.«
(George Orwell in his Preface to the novel’s Ukrainian publication in 1947)
Appropriate age: for teenagers aged twelve and older
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