Animal Farm Play

Recently, I have watch the play Animal Farm. This play is based on George Orwell's book whereby the animals end up controlling a farm. So this are my reflections after watching the play. I think that the director should have used more people to represent the characters in the book as in the play only 7 people were acting. This caused not only me but most of my friends much confusion on which actor is acting as which character. As most of the actors had many roles. Let me give you an example, when Boxer died in the last part, the actor suddenly changed his role to one of the chickens on the farm. This abrupt change in character caused some confusion.

Something that was done very well was the sound effects. They were done on the spot and it sounded like it was done electronically.

However, there were some changes that were made. When the convicts were sentenced, inside of being killed by the dogs, they were shot by a machine gun. This bring me to my next point, there were no dogs in the play unlike in the story where the dogs were Napoleans bodyguard or secret police. There was a change in the ending insteadof the argument that happened among the pigs and humans, it was replaced with Clover being fed by the farmer. This, in my opinion brings out the plot of the story much better.

These are my comments of after watching the play but this play is a good one and I recommend everyone to go and watch it.

Shaun

Shaun wrote at 5:01 AM