Animal Farm
• Tonan Quito
November 5 to 15
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Age rating
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Schools:
November 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13: 10:30 am
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Families:
November 7, 8, 14 and 15 : 4:30 pm
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Laidback session:
November 14: 4:30 pm
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Presentations interpreted by Portuguese Sign Language:
November 8: 4:30 pm
November 11: 10:30 am -
Talk with the artists, after the performance:
November 7: 4:30 pm
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Age range:
To be assigned by CCE;
Appropriate theme for primary and secondary school students -
Running Time:
60min
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Tickets for schools:
€3 for children under 18
€1 for schools TEIP
The accompanying adults’ tickets are free -
Tickets for families:
€3 for children under 18
€7 for children over 18
Discounts available;
Discount Vale Futuro available
In times of uncertainty and fear, and while we witness ferocious acts of power, there is nothing more up to date and universal than provoking an argument about who’s in charge. Who’s in charge here?
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Direction
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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Executive production
Armando Valente and Cláudia Teixeira
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Production
Homem Bala
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Coproduction
LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões
Published in 1945, George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is a political and satyrical text, but also a fable about the way we relate to each other.
Also, the subject of power is eminently present; how it can be irresistible and ultimately, corruptive. In times of uncertainty and fear, and while we witness ferocious acts of power, there is nothing more up to date and universal than provoking an argument about who’s in charge. Who’s in charge here?
Taking the “here” as a place of dissatisfaction, what if the children in the audience took over the theater and appropriated the plot? What if they triumph? What if, for a moment, they become masters of the farm and we, the pigs, obey?
