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Here we
go again!
Money,money,money;mustbe funny!
...And it did not need Jeremy
Ogbonna’s velvet-rich but beggingly plaintive tones, or the chorus’s
immediately sterling support, to amplify a wager pregnant therein:
“We’ll show this audience what money
can’t
buy.”
David Stirling
) and celebrate the re-named
Manor Farm in champagne and song --- to
the tune of the State Anthem of the Russian
National Federation. As the animals join in,
we can see that the cycle of repression is set
to recommence.
As is becoming customary, the production
was filmed by a trained team of boys, the
last night also being broadcast live over the
internet. The wardrobe skills of JSB and MLS
were to be admired as ever, and nine boys
oversaw the lighting, sound and projection
(a clever use of propaganda newsreel
technique).
‘Surely, Comrades’, Squealer frequently
intones when he wishes to frighten the animal
into submission,‘you do not want Jones back?’
On the evidence of this production, I would
say ‘the sooner the better’.
PD
The Cast & Crew
Storyteller
Clyde Lartey
‘Humans’
Farmer Pilkington -
David Stirling
Farmer Jones -
Dylan Grafftey-Smith
‘Pigs’
Squealer -
Cenk Oguz
Napoleon -
Savva Grevtsev
Snowball -
Freddie Newland
Major -
Eddie Burnaby-Atkins
Minimus -
Tate Cecil
Dogs -
Henry Kendall and Augustus Stanhope
‘Others’
Horses and Donkey:
Boxer -
George Laing
Clover -
Nick Crawford
Benjamin -
Sebastian Corso
Mollie -
Arthur Virgin
Young Horses -
Harry Nichol,Archie Dunipace
Moses the Raven -
Jackson Amies
Pigeon -
Albert Moores
Hens -
Alvin Zhou, Dylan Guo andWilliam Barlow
Cows -
EdwardWhitbread and MylesWilliams
Sheep -
Finley Smith, Bobby Cai
and Aidan Saunders
Lighting, Sound and Projection
HCTR, Rafe Hogben,Tommy Sainz de Vicuña,
Finn McCullagh,Vadim Gurinov,
James Clapperton, Jimmy Milne, Rory McNair,
Oliver Edwards, Florian Hull
Video Production Unit and Live Broadcast Team
Benson Guo, David Doughty, Charlie Rooth,
SamAkiode,Angus Shepherd-Cross, Steve Zhao,
Marc Lindgren
Stagehand and Runner -
Gunnar Saastad,
Dave Currie
Piano -
GIJP
Snare -
Dylan Grafftey-Smith
Costumes –
JSB, MLS
Makeup -
Mrs Sarah Sparrow
Mrs Christine Berry
Directed by MWIJ
S u m m e r F i e l d s
2 0 1 5 – 2 0 1 6