Animal Farm

By George Orwell
Adapted by Nelson Bond
Co-Produced by Mitchell College and Flock Theatre
Directed by Noah Todd and Victor Chiburis

Performed by Mitchell College students and Flock Theatre actors
Masks by Heather Asch

January 17 - January 26,
Fridays through Sundays

Ticket Link Coming Soon

The Mitchell College Red Barn
629-A Montauk Avenue,
New London, CT 06320

All performances 7pm

Tickets - $15 
Students, Seniors, and Active Military - $5

Flock Theatre artists Noah Todd and Victor Chiburis are teaching a Mitchell College mini-mester intensive course in which students will remount the reader’s theatre production of the George Orwell classic Animal Farm at the Mitchell College Red Barn. Students will be joined by a few Flock Theatre actors reprising their roles from previous performances. 

This course and production are the next phase of Flock’s original intent for Animal Farm as well as the next phase in their Mitchell College partnership as the resident theatre company. Due to Animal Farm’s political themes and reader’s theatre style, it is the company’s hope to package the production for various communities to construct, produce, and perform themselves; making exciting theatre accessible to all. 

Orwell’s famous allegorical novel transposed into script reflects the events that created the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, set against the backdrop of the Manor Farm, an aesthetic perfectly imagined within Mitchell’s Red Barn venue. In Animal Farm, two young pigs named Napoleon and Snowball mount a rebellion against the farmers when their leader, Old Major, passes away. The play follows Napoleon as he slowly and nefariously restructures the farm, wages war, and controls his subordinates through propaganda and manipulation.

Flock’s production of Animal Farm featured an array of expertly designed and crafted animal masks created by Heather Asch, a 4-time Emmy award-winning puppeteer, whose credits include The Jim Henson Company, Sesame Workshop, and Nickelodeon. These masks will be used by Mitchell College students in the remounted production.