Animal Farm Returns

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Today, my juniors performed the play Animal Farm by George Orwell. For those of you who've been reading my blog from the beginning know that my class performed it as well, last year. The class was split into ten teams and each team was given a chapter of Animal Farm to interpret and perform. It didn't have to be exactly what the novel contained and could be anything they imagined. For example, my team performed an investigation about the death of Boxer. 

I could only watch teams 1-7 perform. My favorite - and I think the crowd's favorite - was a team that interpreted the animals as stationery. (I don't want to mention the team number incase I remembered it wrong) Each animal was represented as a piece of stationery - a compass, set square, pencil, etc. There was a school student - a gen Z kid - who had no idea what those were even used for and mistreated them. The stationery items rebelled and revolted against the kid, chasing her away. They even had a little chant. They also reinterpreted the 7 commandments, adapting them to stationery rather than animals. It was comical and earned lots of laughs from the entire crowd. This interpretation also had multiple scenes. Everytime we thought it was over, they came back on stage again. 

One of the differences I noticed from this year's performance and ours last year was the arrangement of the classroom. We pushed all the tables and benches aside to make a huge space in the middle of the classroom. This year, the tables were just pushed back as far as possible and the performers used the raised platform and the floor. 

As I watched the performance, I realized that I've been blogging for over a year now. Wow... 

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