Animal Farm
• Tonan Quito
4 to 13 February
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Age rating
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Schools:
4, 9 and 10 February: 10:30 am
11 February: 10:30 am and 2:30 pm -
Families:
4 February: 6:30 pm
5, 6, 12 and 13 February: 4:30 pm -
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On 5 February there will be a talk with the artists after the performance.
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Session with Portuguese Sign Language:
6 and 9 February
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Session with Audio Description:
11 February at 2:30 pm
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Laid-back Session:
13 February
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Age Rating:
12 years and above
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Target Audience:
Starting at 12 years
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Duration:
60 minutes
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School Prices:
€3 < 18 years/ €1 +TEIP schools/ Chaperones are exempt
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Family Prices:
€3 < 18 years/ €7 > 18 years/ Discounts are applicable
Who is in charge here?
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Directed by
Tonan Quito
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Text
Inês Fonseca Santos from “Animal Farm” by George Orwell
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Performance
Cláudia Gaiolas
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Scenography
F. Ribeiro
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Light Design
Daniel Worm
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Sound Design
Pedro Costa
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Executive Production
Cláudia Teixeira
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Production
HomemBala
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Co-Production
LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões e Teatro Virgínia
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Acknowledgments
Exército Português, Lusitano da Penha de França and Movimento Presente
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Institutional Support
Fundo de Fomento Cultural/República Portuguesa
Published in 1945, “Animal Farm” by George Orwell is a political and satirical text, but also a fable about the way in which we relate to each other. To this the long-standing theme of power is added: of how it can be irresistible and, ultimately, how it corrupts. In times of uncertainty and fear, in which we are witness to ferocious exercises of power, there is nothing more current and transversal that provoking a discussion about who is in charge. Who is in charge here?
Being that this “here” is a place of dissatisfaction, what if the children who come to see this play, taking advantage of the theatre, appropriate the story? And what if they are triumphant? And what if, for a moment, they become the owners of the farm and us, pigs who obey?
