Have you ever felt like you were a character in a novel you have read? These days I feel like I am one of the animals in George Orwell’s “Animal ...

George Orwell’s political fable marks its 80th anniversary, a fresh interpretation of Animal Farm is brought to the stage in a co-production with Theatre Royal Stratford East, Leeds Playhouse and ...

Animal Farm needs little introduction ... Tachia Newall (TV credit – Doctor Who) as Napoleon, had a fine powerful voice, characterising an – at times – naïve character, eventually relishing ...

“Assume good intentions for as long as you can”, so says the playscript’s prefacing notes. This is the prevailing spirit with which Tatty Hennessy has adapted Orwell’s culturally ubiquitous novel.

Ghana forcefully shoots onto the scene of sovereign countries, carrying an ear-splitting voice of a united Africa. It sends ...

George Orwell famously wrote in Politics and the English Language (1946) that "political language is designed to make lies ...

George Orwell’s Animal Farm has almost as much cultural cachet as his much referenced and adapted 1984, yet I have somehow ...

‘The practice of using farm produce, cooking all parts of the animal, foraging and preserving ... a stylish hotel inside a Baroque palace where Napoleon Bonaparte once stayed.

Animal Farm is an allegory for Stalin’s betrayal ... When Old Major dies, two younger pigs, Napoleon and Snowball, lead the animals in a successful revolution to take over the farm.