A FAIRY STORY Animal Farm
“Must not spoil the mood, the harvest festival of gentle beginnings. Everything is fine… and if it isn’t, history will tidy it up later.”
A Fairy Story Animal Farm reimagines Orwell’s fable as a meta-surreal, visceral epic of revolution, memory and myth-making. Guided by a Pigeon’s fractured narration, the story unravels into a darkly comic collision of hope, brutality and political reinvention.
Familiar characters return with raw emotional immediacy as rebellion pulses through techno-ritual, working-class nostalgia and the seductive glow of collective purpose. History loops, glitches and reboots as power corrodes, truth is curated, and violence resurfaces in new forms.
This is Animal Farm as a fever-dream of uprising, loss, and the cost of believing in a better world.
TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRE
February 2026
Written by MAISIE NEWMAN after GEORGE ORWELL
Directed by MAISIE NEWMAN
Set & Costume Design by HAZEL LOW
Lighting Design by HUGO DODSWORTH
Sound Design by BEN OSBORN
Photographs by CRAIG FULLER
“Forget everything you remember about Animal Farm from your secondary school English lessons. This is the techno remix of the fable you never knew you needed, complete with aggressive strobe lighting and silver confetti.”