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‘Animal Farm’: Still, Sadly, an Allegory for Our Times.
George Orwell’s 1945 novella “Animal Farm” was written as a satirical political allegory in response to the rise of Stalin’s totalitarian regime in the Soviet Union. The plot concerns mistreated farm animals who rebel against their owner to instead build a free and equal society, only for a group of power-hungry pigs to turn the […]
Farm-ing Our Futures: UCSB Theatre gets Orwellian
Eighty years after its publication, George Orwell’s novella Animal Farm resonates in our world, speaking as sharply to the abuses of authoritarianism across the globe today as it did in addressing Stalinist Russia and the dangers of communism in 1945. The actor-director Andy Serkis – famed for his motion capture and voice-over roles for such […]
