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Spring 2004 Newsletter

The Orwell Project: Past & Future

After 6 weeks and 47 performances, nearly 1,000 students and an audience of 3,500 theatregoers saw 1984 and ANIMAL FARM. The Orwell Project closed at the Connelly Theater on March 14, 2004.

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THE ORWELL PROJECT investigated the prickly issue of the balance of freedom versus control in a civil society, but each production approached the problem from a different angle. While 1984 presented audiences with a stark and unforgiving portrait of a society burned clean of sentiment and human feeling, ANIMAL FARM approached the problem from the opposite side - with the childlike wonder and grotesquerie of a fairy tale.

ATTENTION COMRADES!
ANIMAL FARM MAY HAVE LEGS!

Puppets and music proved to be wonderful vehicles for the message of George Orwell's enchanting barnyard fable. In the capable hands, voices and bodies of our talented ensemble, the ingenious puppet designs of Emily DeCola and Eric Wright perfectly captured the naïve sincerity of the ill-fated animals, and Richard Peaslee's catchy music eloquently evoked the sentimentality and jingoism of a community willfully blind to the crimes of its elected leaders.

We are eager to share Synapse's production of ANIMAL FARM with a larger audience, and are working toward a national tour in 2005-2006. The story is full of humor and life, and it alerts us to the risks inherent in not participating in our democratic society. ANIMAL FARM is read by young people in schools all over America. We hope to have the opportunity to bring these earnest and lovable characters to life for thousands of young minds, and to get people talking about the central themes of this powerful story and its relevance to America today.

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put ANIMAL FARM on the road.

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