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Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour

The cast of Animal Farm includes Matt Churcher, Darcy Collins, Enrico D. Wey, Ailsa Dalling, Elisa De Grey, Edie Edmundson, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, and more.

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The brand-new production embarked on an extensive UK tour, running at Birmingham Rep from 22 January 2022 then touring to Cambridge, Newcastle, Bath, Norwich, Salford, Plymouth, Nottingham, Coventry, Blackpool, Liverpool, Canterbury, Richmond and Wolverhampton, completing its run on 28 May 2022 at Bromley's Churchill Theatre.

Check out new photos below!

The cast of Animal Farm includes Matt Churcher, Darcy Collins, Enrico D. Wey, Ailsa Dalling, Elisa De Grey, Edie Edmundson, Jonathan Dryden Taylor, Michael Jean-Marain, Rayo Patel, Yana Penrose, Markus Schabbing, Sharon Sze, Ben Thompson and Matt Tait.

The production also combine the forces of some of UK theatre's most talented creatives, including designs by the four-time Olivier Award-winning Bunny Christie (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Company, Ink, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), and puppetry by Toby Olié (War Horse, Running Wild, The Grinning Man, Goodnight Mister Tom).

The animals of Manor Farm drive out the farmer and run the farm themselves.

A revolution. And then what? Then freedom. Every animal will be free.


Old Major, the prize boar, calls the animals of Manor Farm together.

He has had a strange dream of a better future.

George Orwell's world-famous, biting political novel was first published in 1945 and tells the story of a revolution and its aftermath. Re-imagined by an award-winning creative team, Animal Farm is a dynamic, daring and contemporary take on a timeless story.

Icke previously worked on another of Orwell's classics, 1984, which he co-adapted and directed alongside Duncan Macmillan, garnering him his first Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play in 2014, enjoying smash-hit runs in both the West End and on Broadway. Animal Farm also reunites Icke and Christie following their celebrated 2016 collaboration on The Red Barn at the National Theatre.

The production is produced by Children's Theatre Partnership (CTP) in association with Birmingham Rep. CTP creates bold and imaginative theatre for young people, engaging new audiences and aiming to inspire a life-long love of theatre.

For more information visit: animalfarmonstage.co.uk

Photo credit: Manuel Harlan

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Boxer (puppeteers Elisa De Gray, Matt Tait and Rayo Patel) and Squeela (puppeteers Ailsa Dalling and Matthew Churcher)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Boxer (puppeteers Elisa de Grey, Matt Tait and Rayo Patel) and Clover (puppeteers Yana Penrose and Edie Edmundson)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Boxer (puppeteers Sharon Sze, Enrico D. Wey and Yana Penrose)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Clover (puppeteers Yana Penrose and Edie Edmundson) and Boxer (puppeteers Elisa de Grey, Matt Tait and Rayo Patel)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Squeela (puppeteers Ailsa Dalling and Matthew Churcher)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
The cast of Animal Farm

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
The cast of Animal Farm

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Clover (puppeteers Yana Penrose and Edie Edmundson) and Squeela (puppeteers Ailsa Dalling and Matthew Churcher)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Hens (puppeteers Edie Edmundson and Darcy Collins)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Napoleon (puppeteers Ben Thompson and Michael Jean-Marain)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Napoleon (puppeteers Ben Thompson and Michael Jean-Marain)

Photos: Check Out New Images of ANIMAL FARM UK Tour Image
Snowball (puppeteers Elisa de Grey and Matt Tait) and Napoleon (puppeteers Ben Thompson and Michael Jean-Marain)






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