Created/directed by Patricia Miller after George Orwell's infamous book with cast participation.
Be part of creating a world premiere spin on the book that broke all records.
This adaptation takes Orwell's story of revolt and revolution gone wrong and spins a satire about contemporary media and mega-corporations!
Take revenge on the mainstream media outlets.... get your claws into social media... take on the "influencers" as our animal heros struggle to create a just society.
Students will devise, improvise, research, write this new play, excerpts to be performed Fall 21, full staged production Spring 2022!!!
AUDITIONS WILL BE AT OCEAN CAMPUS THURSDAY JAN 27 AND SATURDAY JAN 30 1. You should be vaccinated and masked.
2. Bring a piece of monologue under 1 minute and/or be prepared to cold read
3. Be prepared to improvise with 1 or 2 others
4. Your 30 minute time slot will be confirmed the week of audition.
Rehearsal schedule TBA based on student availability. All sessions are remote and accessible to all.
No experience necessary but we seek actors, writers, activists, journalists, question seekers, clowns, cabbages, Kings/Queens/Kweens!
Big Brothers?
Do you influence?
Sur le table!
Who squeals the loudest?
Questions? pmiller@ccsf.edu
About Animal Farm:
"...with it's parallels to today's progressive movement, Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was written as an allegory for the 'Russian Revolution' (1917) leading into the 'Stalinist Era' of the 'Soviet Union', with farm animals taking the place of historical figures.
"'Old Major', the aging boar on the 'Manor Farm', summons the animals on the farm together for a meeting, during which he slanders all humans.
"When Major dies, two young pigs, 'Snowball' and 'Napoleon', assume command and consider it a duty to prepare for the 'Rebellion'.
"The animals revolt, driving the drunken, irresponsible farmer 'Mr. Jones', as well as 'Mrs. Jones' and the other human caretakers and employees, off the farm, now renamed 'Animal Farm'.
Are you ready to get creative? Are you ready to combine your Inspirations, your frustrations, your exultations into one messy delicious jambalaya and get college credit for it. Join THA 152A and Feeding Frenzy Collective.
If you pay attention to the media right now, we all live in a Hall of Mirrors. Threads of narratives are unpicked and stitched over, words and images twist into something else, today's painful truth is tomorrow's viral meme and everybody's got an opinion.
Imagine a story that people know well, one that a child can understand. Imagine characters who have stood the test of time and escaped their original context. That story is George Orwell's Animal Farm, a timeless tale of a just revolution, a new society where fresh hopes descend into nightmarish tyranny. The animals throw out the humans only to become more brutal than their oppressors. Police dogs hunt out non-believers. Show ponies crave their pretty ribbons again.
Our “Feeding Frenzy Collective” will use Orwell's story as a source for a World premiere stage adaptation . The resulting script will be performed as a workshop Fall 2021 and become a fully staged production in Spring 2022. Orwell’s Animal Farm story will play out within a frame of competing media spins. As the animals struggle to shape a just society, a gallery of major Network pundits and a gaggle of self-appointed social media influencers duke it out in a frenzied, media mosh pit worthy of animals. What does the audience for “Animal Farm - The Feeding Frenzy” experience? A beloved tragic tale re-visited as well as a hilarious social satire of our time modelled on fast talking TV shows like Veep and Thick of It and the plays of Bertoldt Brecht.
Calling actors writers improvisers journalists broadcasters of every age, race and gender.
Fall 2021's Performance Workshop was a developmental cauldron, co-creating this world premiere.
The live stage show is a rehearsed, scripted show as well as a one to three-unit remote learning space with credits that transfer to UC and CSU.
Chief writer/instigator and director Patricia Miller is a professional director, writer, producer and Faculty at CCSF, Berkeley Rep and others.
What are you waiting for? Join the Revolution today! “Feeding Frenzy Collective” awaits your fire!
