Animal Farm. Der Aufstand der Tiere

After more than 50 guest performances, the animals of the Animal Farm return to their home barn for an evening.

A horror fairy tale with music, loosely based on a novel by Georg Orwell with Gian Rupf and Volker Ranisch.

In the "fairytale land of the Rhine Valley" there is a farm, a farm. Animals have taken over the sceptre here. Freed from humans, they set the tone and finally it begins, real life.

In times when man is preparing to ruin the earth, such a social revolution as Orwell sketches would be a comforting utopia: animals take the things of life into their own hands, or paws and claws. Society is reconstituted – without capital, surplus value and money.

Ranisch and Rupf step into the ring of the many animal figures and exemplify how a new "togetherness" is created, in which everyone is supposedly doing well; Some are even a little better, but not everyone knows that.

Orwell's novel bears the deliberately trivializing subtitle "A Fairy Tale". But fairy tales are not always beautiful. They are sometimes brutal: wolves eat grandmothers, stepmothers assassinate daughters, witches end up in the oven.

And what in Orwell's case initially comes across as a harmless children's story turns out to be a hard-hitting, satirical indictment of totalitarian systems. Because as soon as everyone is equal, some become more equal and the clever pigs expand their supremacy into a dictatorship...

Director: Klaus Hemmerle

Play: Gian Rupf, Volker Ranisch

Text version: Volker Ranisch

Technician: Dario Marty

Production: Klibühni, Das Theater.