Animal Farm
• Tonan Quito
10 to 21 January 2024
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Age rating
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Schools:
10, 11, 17 and 18 January: 10:30am and 2:30pm
12 and 19 January: 10:30am -
Families:
13 and 20 January: 4:30pm
14 and 21 January: 11:30am and 4:30pm -
Sessions with Portuguese Sign Language:
19 January: 10:30am and 20 January: 4:30pm
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Session with Audio Description:
20 January: 4:30pm
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Laid-back session:
21 January: 11:30am
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Age Rating:
12 years and above
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Target Audience:
Starting at 10 years
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Duration:
50 min.
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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
A timeless fable about how we relate to others.
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Direction
Tonan Quito
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Text
Inês Fonseca Santos, based on George Orwell’s work “Animal Farm”
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Performance
Cláudia Gaiolas
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Set Design
F. Ribeiro
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Light Design
Daniel Worm
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Sound Design
Pedro Costa
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Assembly
Tiago Coelho
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Executive Production
Cláudia Teixeira
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Production HomemBala
HomemBala
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Co-production
LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões and Teatro Virgínia
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Institutional Support
Fundo de Fomento Cultural/República Portuguesa
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Acknowledgments
Portuguese Army, Lusitano da Penha de França and Movimento Presente
Published in 1945, George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is a political and satirical text, but also a fable about how we relate to others. Added to this is the age-old theme of power, how it can be irresistible, and ultimately, corrupting. In times of uncertainty and fear, as we witness fierce exercises of power, there is nothing more current and pervasive than provoking a discussion about who is in charge.
Who is in charge here? If 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? What if they succeed? What if, for a moment, they become the owners of the farm and we, the obedient pigs?
Included in the Ethics and Justice Cycle
