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In: | Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, 11, 2018, 2, S. 217-225 |
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Intellect
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 217-225 |
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1753-6421
1753-643X |
DOI: | 10.1386/jafp.11.2.217_1 |
veröffentlicht in: | Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | Intellect (CrossRef) |
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The start of George Orwell’s Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) finds an assembly of animals gathered to hear the strange dream that Old Major had the night before. The 12-year-old boar prefaces his narrative with a polemic against the miserable and toilsome lives that they are living in Manor Farm: ‘No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth’ (5). Orwell traces the resultant revolution, revealing some of its flaws while resisting a monocausal reading for its failure. In what follows, I discuss this play with its most recent adaptor, Toronto-based theatre artist Anthony MacMahon. We examine the novella’s resonance in the twenty-first century, and analyse the adaptation’s treatment of, and response to, Orwell.</jats:p> |