Animal Farm is an interactive musical performance for all audiences, starting at age 7, loosely inspired by George Orwell's novel.
What happens when the animals decide to drive the humans off the farm? How do they organize themselves? Who has the right to make decisions for everyone? What are the consequences for each animal? What could we have done differently?
Young spectators, interacting with the stage, can change the course of the story and decide their shared fate. They experience collective organization through a playful, empirical, and musical experiment.
George Orwell's novel, published at the beginning of the Cold War, is an allegorical and political fable that tells the story of the collective organization of farm animals after they ousted the humans. However, some animals, tempted to become "more equal than others," seek to reclaim the reins they had freed themselves from, jeopardizing the dream of a free, egalitarian, and prosperous society. ARFI’s performance takes liberties with the original story, imagining its extensions and “what ifs?” from a child’s perspective.
