Animal Farm is a stage adaptation of the famous story written by George Orwell, in which the exploited animals of Manor Farm overthrow the farmer in an attempt to win freedom for all animals. However, an elite cadre of animals gradually takes control of the farm, and the other animals realise they are not all as equal as they expected to be. It has been adapted for the stage by Ian Wooldridge and this political satire and allegory about Soviet communism was performed brilliantly by six actors: Samater Ahmed, Sam Black, Amy Drake, Polly Lister, Killian Macardle and Ida Regan, who all played different roles and vividly brought Orwell’s enduring tale about the corrupting effect of power to life.
A booming voiceover begins the show – six characters ominously enter the stage portraying the different animals of the farm, one of whom, the Major, also known as Willingdon Beauty, announces to his comrades that he wished to share his dream. He then delivers a stirring speech in which he declares his plan for a rebellion against the owner of the farm, Mr. Jones, and other humans to win freedom for all animals. This was well executed by Polly Lister, whose voice was crystal clear, and had the audience gripped from the start.
Three days later, the Major perishes, but his speech still lives in the animal’s memories and gives them a new outlook on life. The three most intelligent animals on the farm – Napoleon (Ida Regan), Snowball (Samater Ahmed) and Squealer (Killian Macardle), all pigs – begin teaching the animals a new system of thought – animalism – and seven commandments are issued: whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy, whatever goes upon four is a friend; no animal shall wear clothes; no animal shall sleep in a bed; no animal shall drink alcohol; no animal shall kill any other animal; and all animals are equal.
The animals carry out all the work on the farm themselves, but one in particular stands out, Boxer the horse, played by Sam Black, who is very convincing, wearing a horse head type helmet and making neighing sounds, which he kept up for the duration. He was also humorous and brought an element of comedy to a serious play, which the audience enjoyed. Other animals were portrayed using helmets and there were some very convincing chicken noises too.
Soon enough, the working hours begin to change and Snowball and Napoleon announce that they’ll be looking after the farm and gradually begin to assert control over the other animals.
A few scenes later, all the animals come on stage when the farm is attacked by humans and Snowball fights bravely, killing some and forcing the rest to flee. The fighting scenes are amazing, with dramatic music and dark lighting used to create tension. None of the scenes dragged and the action moved swiftly along.
Clover (Polly Lister) becomes curious about Mollie’s frequent disappearances, accusing her of allowing a human to stroke her. That is the last we see of her.
Snowball calls a meeting and declares his plan for a new way of working that will make the farm a better place: he wants to build a windmill. However, Napoleon disagrees and allegedly has him killed. The tide begins to turn after this as Napoleon and his comrade Squealer begin to take tighter control of the farm. Ida Regan and Killian Macardle are very persuasive as the two would-be tyrants, and their speeches are powerful. They even engage the audience at points, which added more humour to this otherwise harrowing story. Napoleon steals Snowball’s idea for a windmill and claims it as his own.
Towards the end of the play, the pigs begin to sleep in the farmhouse, learn how to walk on two legs (already being on two legs, the actors use stilts to demonstrate this), execute other animals, drink alcohol and wear clothes. They also change the seven commandments in their favour to suit their new circumstances and begin cooperating with neighbouring farms. Most of the animals end up dead (including Boxer) until there are only a couple left who remember the rebellion and its original purpose – Clover and Benjamin the donkey (Samater Ahmed).
The show closes with all the actors on stage and the spotlight on Napoleon, who delivers a speech, just like the Major did at the start. He declares that the farm will no longer be named Animal Farm. Henceforth, it will be known by its original name of Manor Farm, thereby symbolising how nothing has changed as a result of the rebellion.
So much is achieved on a small set and with a small number of actors. However, it’s executed perfectly, and it follows the book almost word for word. These days, you almost expect something like this to be foisting woke gobbledegook on the audience. But, no, this adaptation is faithful to the original and the message is surely as poignant today as it ever was. The lines are delivered coherently, the long speeches especially; performance were flawless and engaging and well-pitched. Animal Farm at Hull New Truck Theatre is highly recommended and a great way to spend an evening.
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Oh this is going to be fun.
“I’m very conscious, as I sit in this chair now, of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates,…”
Well there’s the problem in a nutshell. She’s prioritizing diversity over the best candidates for the job, which is kind of predictable if she herself is a DEI tick box person. Does a person want their life guarded with the most diverse people or the most suitable and capable? Maybe we should get some insight from Trump’s wife, Melania, lol. I mean, at least make your bodyguards be bigger than the person they’re tasked with guarding, FFS!
If/when Trump gets in the White House he seriously needs to scrap this godawful DEI bullshit. There’s literally nothing good to say about any of it.
P.S Elon’s comment did make me laugh. Crikey, what an upgrade!
Kimberley Cheatle is directly responsible for the death of one man and two others critically injured.
DIE working like a proper acronym.
How does she sleep at night?
Is she? I’d say the snipers that failed to fire and eliminate the threat, who apparently needed no approval first, were responsible.
From what I heard yesterday those snipers are actually tasked
with covering threats much further away, their rifles and scopes are able to engage at more than 1,500m. Their guns had to be lowered to point along the needed sightline.
Yes, but the facts remain. The snipers managed to take the gunman out only *after* he’d fired first. And bearing in mind it all happened in a few split seconds, if they could’ve killed him as they did do, very effectively, why wait those critical moments, allowing the gunman to open fire first? Unless they were specifically ordered to wait then some personal responsibility needs to be taken. I heard the sniper that killed the gunman got the sack, but that’s just some comment online, I don’t have a source.
As I understand it they had to adjust the tripod supporting the rifle, that’s where the extra seconds came from.
What is poor is that a local police officer climbed up to the roof and the shooter pointed his rifle at him causing him to retreat but it seems there was no integrated comms to alert everyone else at this point. So 2 lots of slow responses because the organisation was inadequate, which is unusual given the experience of the people who should be in charge of security.
Police and security services were alerted to the shooter by members of the public and video evidence supports this but the warnings were ignored.
Yes Tvarisch.
The rot starts at the top.
Well as we know, no matter the organisation, across all sectors, if there’s individual f@ck ups within the team, and there’s serious consequences/damage done as a result, it’s the person in charge of the team’s performance that takes the fall. So this woman should resign and jump before she gets pushed.
As if the whole debacle wasn’t bad enough, imagine if the gunman had succeeded in his objective and we’d all woke up to news that Donald Trump had been murdered. Are we honestly meant to believe that this woman would still be in her role as head of security? If she stays in her job now then it’s like a two-fingured salute to that poor man’s family, because that guy in the audience literally took the place of Trump and was gunned down due to incompetence on a massive scale. No second chances with this, no way.
But what I think should happen is that the person responsible for hiring her should bare some responsibility and get fired too. I mean, the article says she was hired by Biden but it won’t have literally been him that interviewed and selected her. The guy’s away with the fairies at the best of times. But if better candidates were deliberately discarded and she was nothing more than a paper exercise then someone’s head needs to roll.
But I do hope, and fully expect, Trump to ditch these inept clowns who don’t value his ( or the public’s ) life and find some top quality, highly skilled and experienced officers instead. Otherwise you’d be worried about making any more public appearances, all the time thinking “is this it? Will they get me this time?” All because you can’t trust your security team.
“But what I think should happen is that the person responsible for hiring her should bare some responsibility and get fired too.”
Now this I am in full agreement with.
DEI MUST DIE.
Get the t.shirts printed. hux does it again.
Bear some responsibility
A lot of people have raised this suggestion that Trump should get his own security team rather than relying on the Secret Service who might be less than 100% loyal to him. But surely his own security team would not have sufficient authority to kill suspected assassins and to enter property etc … nor the necessary legal protection for the officers for acts undertaken in the course of their duties.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/warning-signs-secret-service-months-trump-assassination-attempt/5862650
It looks like Cheatle has been failing for some time.
The knives are out. Good.
The rooftops were supposed be searched and cleared. Or guarded or closed off. Seems they were not. Probably for DEI reasons or some such mindless, midwit reason
The theme of this article and comments is DEI, but we must keep in mind the (in my opinion) more likely possibility of malice or malign intent on the part of the deep state.
Maybe she sleeps in the day?
It won’t be her/their fault. It never is.
Exactly.
One report said that a police command center was located inside the building that the shooter climbed to the roof. There were to be SS snipers set up on that roof but , apparently, it was too hot and they they remained inside. One reason the SS sniper held his fire was that he was unsure if the person on the roof of the police command post was a police sniper. That might also explain why this rooftop was apparently left exposed and unprotected.
“The agency has the goal of increasing the number of women to 30% by 2030…”
Why?
Given how the Woketard force is so strong with these people I’m surprised they didn’t put the word “biological” in front of the word “women” to qualify what they mean, unless they’re aiming to diversify further by including women with penises and the non-binary peeps.
Then the SS really will resemble a Netflix series.
Shouldn’t the SS be recruiting Red Indians now?
Whoops, I bet that’s not allowed.
It’s not quite up there with coon or nigger I don’t think.
I know this plays well with “the right”, but this is NOT why Trump was shot at.
A cock up 2 days before the start of the Republican Convention?
Has anyone stopped to wonder how a random looney with a gun is able to plan and execute something like that? How far in advance does he plan? Days? Hours? How does it work? He sees the podium finds out Trump is speaking, and on the spur of the moment decides to assassinate him? So he has a quick look around, sees a good spot to take a shot, which miraculouslly is overlooked by the security services? And of he goes to get his gun?
Or does he plan it days in advance? How does he have all the advanced information about where everything is going to be, how it’s going to be set up? This disgruntled rando.
Public shootings by randos are messy and badly thought out in very public places. Not surgical, precision strikes.
Just the slightest bit of thought should make anyone conclude that the theory of the random disgruntled assassin is the most improbable of conspiracy theories.
The difference of course is that when you have the full force of the media to push your conspiracy theory, it immediately becomes the official explanation. And the relentlessly gullible masses lap it up every fuckkng time. No questions asked. The only source of information: the FBI. No probs, all good.
Depressing.
An inside job.
Apparently he borrowed his Dad’s AR-15, not sure if he had permission or just took it without asking.
Now you say that it does sound a bit ridiculous.
They didn’t like his choice of VP so they chose to off him. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
Who is his choice of VP?
He hadn’t announced it but the person would have known, as would the security apparatus. Once official the line of succession is clear if trump is killed, if killed before the announcement the Republican party gets to choose at the convention. Oddly trump has bought the announcement two days forward from Wednesday to today.
From what I have read he joined the Party. This means he would have received a notification about DTs itinerary.
That’s the problem. You can make/take a million precautions and then something random can happen. Who really expects a nutter to commit suicide in such a situation when the policing would be expected to by smotheringly oppressive? The US is suffering a law enforcement recruitment crisis as potential recruits are reluctant to apply for work as a police officer because the US has gone woke mad. That includes the Secret Service, State Police forces and the local policing delivery at every level. This was a small town. Possibly its entire police force may only be 10 strong. State police and county police may have tried to beef the local input up, but they’re all manpower strapped too. Mix that with the multilayered way that US law enforcement is delivered and there are a myriad of potential holes to create. So everyone is short of manpower (personpower for our rainbow zealots) and mistakes are made. All you need is an alignment of errors to align and you have what happened at the Trump rally. Could it be a conspiracy? Yes. But, equally, could it just have been a law enforcement SNAFU? Of course it could. Preparedness to grab at the former just proves that one’s political agenda overloads one’s ability to maintain an open mind until the facts emerge.
Ann Coulter on X: “Female secret service agent fails situational judgement course (ability to separate gumen from innocent civilians). Kimberly Cheatle authorized her graduation anyway, in order to fulfill the girl quota. Sign petition to fire this lunatic: https://t.co/uJCYxVbTLJ” / X
Probably the chubby little firker who couldn’t holster her gun. Most boys have mastered that by age 6. Ain’t DIE bloody marvellous.
History is littered literally with winning DEI armies. In fact the more diverse an army was the more winning. I don’t think Alexander the greats or Julius Caesar contained a single straight white male. Prove me wrong!
Wasn’t Julius Caeser supposed to be a bit gay? Or bi? Are you gay if you’re bi?
I think he was pan actually, cleo had a large dildo and he loved it. This is all documented I read a peer reviewed study on it.
It’s no comfort to know your cardiologist, airline pilot, car mechanic, Chief Constable, MP (etc) weren’t selected for their experience/expertise, but their woke credentials.
People who think gender is a choice, Britain is evil and wrong is right.
Excellent video from Paul Joseph Watson with some seriously informed additional video clips.
The security services were in on this for sure.
My initial suspicions were wrong.
https://youtu.be/TxE3t3lUijA?si=pnh1jLWygb8EO0jY
https://youtu.be/dXfDFVysQ6Q?si=sHrse6t5oYU8DJ1o
A short clip from The Rubin Report where Cheatle outlines her DIE credentials.
Helpful stuff. Two minutes viewing.
Women can’t do these types of jobs properly. There’s a reason why, throughout history, strong, athletic, skillful males were warriors and heavy lifters. Because women are too small, not fast enough and lack strength. We have become utter idiots about equality in many jobs. It is madness.
Someone very dear to me joined a UK police force and is now a fully trained police constable. She is in her twenties, around 4’10” tall and could easily be mistaken for a child. I feel very concerned for her safety.
This politically woke interference everywhere has unintended consequences. I am sure these woke inspired people have the best of intentions. They think they can socially engineer a better world. But my friend who is a fireman was just saying to me recently that the Fire Brigade where he works recently employed a female and in the fire engine a wooden box is required since her feet cannot touch the bottom of the fire engine. She does not have the physical attributes of the male firemen and cannot climb the ladder so well as them. I say to people “When there is a fire and your 2 year old child needs recused from the burning building, who do you want to rescue them? A 6ft 3 in powerful man or a smaller less powerful woman? ——–Social Engineering and wokery cannot and should not happen if it interferes with what is best for safety and for common sense. —–PS This in no way reflects badly on women. But it is the case that men and women do no compete together in physical sport, since that would be very unfair, and why there is currently just a stink kicked up about trans people swimming and running against women in races.
“You know she was working at Pepsi before this. I know she was a former CIA Secret Service agent, but still, this is what happens when you don’t put the best players in.”
But if you want to assassinate your political opponent and blame it on incompetence, ideal.