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Sterijino Pozorje Festival |
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Novi Sad |
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May 26th - June 5th 2008 |
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WEDNESDAY - MAY 28th 2008 |
Small Stage, Serbian National Theatre
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George Orwell
ANIMAL FARM
The Children’s Theatre of the Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka
(Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Srpska) |
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Stage adaptation, director ALEKSEJ LjELjAVSKI
Set designer VALERI RAČKOVSKI
Choreographer MARKO DUKIĆ
Accompanist MILAN SMILjANIĆ
Stage speech MILORAD TELEBAK
Premiere:
October 26th 2007 |
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Characters |
Farmer Jones, the owner of Manor Farm |
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Old Major, an old boar, who used to be Willingdon’s top show pig |
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Napoleon, a Berkshire boar of fierce disposition |
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His beloved gild |
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Snawball, a young boar |
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Squealer, spokesman |
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Boxer, a horse |
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Mollie, a tame filly |
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Rebel Piglets |
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Chickens, Sheep, Pigs |
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Other Animals and People |
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| SVJETLANA ANDRIĆ, DRAGAN BANjAC, BOŽANA BIJELIĆ, ALEKSANDAR BLANIĆ, SANJA GRUJIĆ, ĐORĐE JANKOVIĆ, ANA MAZALICA, SNEŽANA MILIDRAG, ŽELjKO MILIĆEVIĆ, SLOBODAN PERIŠIĆ, ALEKSANDRA SPASOJEVIĆ, SAŠA TERZIĆ, ZORANA ŠUMAN |
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P E R F O R M A N C E...... |
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"What is that gun firing for?"
"To celebrate our victory!"
"What victory?"
"What victory, comrade? Have we not driven the enemy off our soil--the
sacred soil of Animal Farm?"
"But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two
years!"
"What matter? We will build another windmill. We will build six windmills
if we feel like it. You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that
we have done. The enemy was in occupation of this very ground that we
stand upon. And now--thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon--we have won every inch of it back again!"
"Then we have won back what we had before."
"That is our victory."
(Animal Farm)
‘It is a play which gives a satirical view on the society and is simply applicable to all times. There is always a division to those who rule, those who listen, so this is a universal topic which offers a lot of room for provocation of any kind, because, after all, theatre, especially an evening stage, can only be interesting if it is provocative,’ explains Predrag Bjelošević, The Children’s Theatre Manager. |
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GEORGE ORWELL
Eric Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. Educated in England at Eton, he moved to Burma in 1922 where he joined the Indian Imperial Police for five years. He eventually resigned because of his increasing disillusionment with British imperialism. After a period doing a variety of jobs in France he returned to England where opened a village shop. Using the pseudonym, George Orwell, he began writing articles for magazines. His first book, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) described his experiences as a struggling writer. This book was followed by three novels, Burmese Days (1934), A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) and Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936). In 1936 Orwell was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to produce a documentary account of unemployment in the north of England for his Left Book Club. The Road to Wigan Pier established Orwell as one of Britain's leading writers and marked a high point in literary journalism.
Orwell, a committed socialist, went to Spain in December 1936 to report on the Spanish Civil War. He soon decided to join the struggle against the Nationalist Army and became a member of the Lenin Division in Barcelona, a unit under the control of the Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). In January 1937 Orwell, given the rank of corporal, was sent to join the offensive at Aragón. The following month he was moved to Huesca. After 115 days at the frontline he was granted leave and he returned to Barcelona. While there he witnessed the May Riots. Orwell returned to Huesca on 12th May. Promoted to second lieutenant, he commanded a unit of 30 men. Soon after arriving back at the front he was hit by a sniper's bullet which passed through his neck. As a result of the wound, Orwell's left side was paralyzed and he temporarily lost his voice. While in hospital Orwell heard that the Workers Party of Marxist Unification had been declared an illegal organization. Orwell was now in danger of being murdered by communists in the Republican Army. With the help of the British Consul in Barcelona, Orwell was able to escape to France. When Orwell returned to England he wrote about his experiences of the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Catalonia (1938). In the book Orwell attempted to expose the propaganda disseminated by newspapers in Britain. This included attacks on both the right-wing press and the Daily Worker, a paper controlled by the Communist Party. Although one of the best books ever written about war, it sold only 1,500 copies during the next twelve years. Orwell published Coming up for Air in 1939. In August 1941 Orwell began work for the Eastern Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). His main task was to write the scripts for a weekly news commentary on the Second World War. Orwell's scripts were broadcast to the people of India between the end of 1941 and early 1943. During this period Orwell also worked for the Observer newspaper. In 1943 Aneurin Bevan, the editor of the socialist journal Tribune, recruited Orwell to write a weekly column, As I Please. Orwell's plain, lucid style, made him highly effective as a campaigning journalist and some of his best writing was done during this period. Orwell next book, Animal Farm, was a satire in fable form of the communist revolution in Russia. The book, heavily influenced by his experiences of the way communists behaved during the Spanish Civil War, upset many of his left-wing friends and his former publisher, Victor Gollancz, rejected it. Published in 1945, Animal Farm became one of Britain's most popular books. Orwell's final book was influenced by his failing health and his disillusionment with a Labour government that had been elected with a large majority in the 1945 General Election but made little attempt to introduce the kind of socialism that he believed in. In 1945 Orwell reviewed the anti-Utopian novel We by Yevgeni Zamyatin for Tribune. The book inspired his novel,Nineteen Eighty-Four. Published in 1949, the book was a pessimistic satire about the threat of political tyranny in the future. The novel had a tremendous impact and many of the new words and phrases used in the book passed into everyday language. George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950. |
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Why is Orwell inspiring?
It is interesting because it speaks about the lives of all people in all times. His idea is that all of us have equally pronounced illusions about life, ourselves and the people around us. These illusions are very important, although their realisation is not always possible. At the same time they present a huge unknown to us, but also a motive to learn more about the relationships among people. That is why this story is utterly tragic on the one hand, while on the other, it is extremely funny and entertaining, which is where its greatness lies.
Aleksej LjELjAVSKI |
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There is no more false equality, no Stalinist terror, no fear of wars or superpowers, but George Orwell’s works, such as ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’ are still – a hundred years after the writers birth – alive, as a merciless and severe criticism of any lying force.
Even those who have never read George Orwell know his popular quotes. A hundred years after Orwell was born, literates and historians reveal that we still live with his heritage, although the writer is no longer among the living, and even the world he wrote about has already vanished. Nevertheless, ‘Orwellianism’ is a more frequently used term on the Internet than ‘Kafkaism’ or ‘Machiavellianism’. And according to surveys in Britain, Orwell is considered to be the third greatest British writer of all times, right after Shakespeare and Jane Austen. If this might come as a surprise, then the claim that Orwell is a top-class political writer of the 20th century cannot be disputed, together with the fact that his thought is still relevant today, although it is not always easy to explain why this is so.
Animal Farm is a sharp satire on Stalinism in the Soviet Union. Motivated by their desire for equality, animals on a farm organise a rebellion. As the time passes by, the leaders-pigs grab privileges for themselves, enslaving their followers. The revolution turns into a personal dictatorship of the elite, and the pigs become humans. Reading between the lines reveals allusions to Lenin, Stalin and Trocky, the Kronstadt Rebellion, political propaganda, censorship, five-year plans, enforced collectivisation, hunger, Stalin’s pact with Hitler, etc. Although Communism has met its historical end, this Orwell’s story still lives today as a ‘lament of the seduced’ by revolutions and as a symbol of plunged ideals – from a utopia into a corrupted dictatorship. (...)
Dragoslav RANČIĆ (NiN, 3rd July
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