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.

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

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