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.”

- Sam McEvans, Bristol 24/7

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