Animal Farm

With George Orwell now out of copyright, Tatty Hennessy’s stage version of his masterful allegory for the USSR’s slide into totalitarianism is one of two adaptations of Animal Farm coming to London in February 2025 alone, with a blockbuster West End-bound version from Robert Icke hovering in the wings somewhere. You know the story: a group of farm animals throw off their human oppressors; but will their leaders’ lust for power mean their new, supposedly more enlightened model of farm destined to be just as bad – or perhaps worse – than the old one?