Community Links presents 8 special performances of Revolution Farm, inspired by George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm.

Opened in 1977, Newham City Farm is one of London’s longest established and largest city farms. It is home to an extensive range of farmyard favourites and rare breeds – it has everything from a huge shire horse to tiny birds as well as cows, sheep, alpacas, goats, chickens, rabbits, fish, ferrets and even a harris hawk. What better place than City Farm to host the performances of Orwell’s Animal Farm?

Revolution Farm is a brand new adaptation of Animal Farm, George Orwell’s simple, tragic fable that tells the story of what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves. Writer James Kenworth takes Orwell’s classic satire and gives it a fresh, contemporary twist, injecting its timeless tale of a revolution that went wrong with a gritty, urban, in-yer-face language perfectly suited to being staged on one of London’s inner city farms.

Like When Chaplin Met Gandhi, Revolution Farm is a unique collaboration between professional theatre artists and schools/young people in Newham, involving a professional writer, director, designer and actors working alongside students from Gallions Primary School, Kingsford Community School and The Royal Docks Community School, as well as emerging artists from Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Cast: Samuel Caseley. Andreas Poulloura, Katie Arnstein, Kevin Kinson, Nicola Alexis  and students from Gallions Primary School, Kingsford Community School and The Royal Docks Community School, as well as emerging artists from Theatre Royal Stratford East.

Producers: Jim Kenworth & Community Links 
Director: James Martin Charlton 
Designer: Ian Teague 
Associate Producer: Stella Odunlami, 

For tickets and information: www.animalfarm.ticketsource.co.uk