ANIMAL FARM

TNT theatre/ Théâtre du Héron / ADGE Paul Stebbins

CHORUS:
WORKER 1 : We work on a farm near where you live.
WORKER 3 : We come from:
WORKER 2 : Armenia,
WORKER 4 : Moldova,
WORKER 5 : Serbia,
WORKER 1 : Albania.
WORKER 2 :Some of us have permits to work,
WORKER 1 : many of us do not.
WORKER 4 :We work ten hours a day six days a week.
WORKER 3 : Sometimes seven days.
WORKER 5 : We sleep on bunk beds like prisoners.
WORKER 4 : We eat cold food and drink hard liquor.
WORKER 5 : You eat our:
WORKER 1 : Potatoes
WORKER 4 : Gurkins
WORKER 2 : Carrots
WORKER 3 : Which are cheap.
ALL : Like us, Cheap.
WORKER 1 : Our mothers and fathers were communists and dreamed of the
capitalist West.
WORKER 5 : Your country is their paradise.
ALL : Our Hell.
WORKER 4 : Here today
WORKER 2 : We are telling you the story of how this happens.

SCENE 1

WORKER 1 : Farmer Jones, is drunk again. And that’s his wife coming
downstairs from the bedroom, come on Jones or there will be Hell to pay!

MRS JONES : You drunken pig, get out! Get up

JONES : Leave me alone, you old cow.

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MRS JONES : Get up. Look at you, no better than a beast! Can’t you hear the
noise from the stable? Get out there, water your animals and lock the barn
doors or they will all escape.

JONES : Alright, woman, alright. Why did I ever marry? You can beat an animal
but it’s harder to beat a wife.

MRS JONES : You bloody well try and I’ll knock your teeth out! An’ you can
sleep on the sofa tonight!

WORKER 1 : Jones stumbles out into the night and locks the barns and shoos
the chickens back into their hen house.
But being drunk he forgets to close all the doors, and of course he leaves the
water bucket empty.

WORKERS 1&4: We are thirsty!

WORKER 1 : Tyrant. Drunk..

ALL : Human!

WORKER 2 : When all the lights go out in the House the farm animals gather.
Word had been sent out during the day that Old Major, the Prize White Pig,..

SCENE 2

OLD MAJOR : That’s me!

WORKER 2 : That Old Major needed to tell the farm animals of a strange dream
he has dreamt. The animals gather in the big barn.

OLD MAJOR: Order, order, order in the Barn!

Animals of Manor Farm, our lives are miserable, hard and short. We are born
as slaves, forced to work, and given just so much food as will keep the breath
in our bodies. And finally, when we are old and useless, we are killed with
horrible cruelty.

You cows, where are the thousands of buckets of milk that you have given
during this last year? Every last drop has gone down the throats of our enemy,
man. And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year? And where
are you're children? Sold to bring in money for Farmer Jones and his wife. For

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no animal escapes man's cruel knife. Even you dog, they call you man's best
friend but when you grow old, and crippled, Jones will tie a brick around your
neck and drown you in the river. Is it not then crystal clear that without man,
we would become rich and free?

DOG : What must we do?

OLD MAJOR : Revolution against the human race! And when we are
triumphant, and man is overthrown, we must unite in perfect comradeship.
But remember we must not become like man; for the habits of man are bad.
No animal must ever live in a house, no animal must ever sleep in a bed, no
animal must ever wear clothes. You must not drink alcohol, and you must not
touch money. No animal must ever kill another animal. And, above all else, no
animal must ever rule over animals as a dictator. Now raise your paws, wings
or hooves to vote. Will you continue to live in slavery or fight for Revolution?

ALL : Revolution!

WORKER 1 : But the noise of the animals woke the Jones from their sleep.

WOKERKS 1, 3, 4 :
Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland
Beasts of every land and clime
Listen to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time

Soon or late the day is coming

Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall belong to beasts alone

Rings shall vanish from our noses

And the harness from our back
Pigs will no more go to slaughter
Cruel whips no longer crack

SCENE 3

MRS JONES : What the Hell is that racket in the barn? Wake up, wake up you
drunken fool and go and sort it out!

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JONES : Alright, woman, I’d get more peace sleeping with the animals myself.

JONES : That will teach you lot a lesson. I’ll be back to chop up that pig for
bacon tomorrow….

DOG : Just you try.

SNOWBALL : Comrades, it is the hour – avenge our prophet Old Major! Bury
Old Major, and never never let man eat bacon again! Revolution! Now!

HORSE MURIEL : Excuse me but after the Revolution will there still be sugar?
Will I still have ribbons to tie in my hair?

SNB : Ribbons are a symbol of slavery to man, sugar is a drug that rewards us
for slavery!

CROW : But in heaven there is so much sugar. Why should we worry about our
hard life on earth when eternal sugary life waits for us in a land in the clouds:
Sugar Candy Heaven!

SNB : Lies ! Your horse is foolish but ignorant, but you Crow are a spy – yes this
bird is a spy working for Farmer Jones, lying to us about a Sugar Candy Heaven
to keep us in chains !

DOG : Spy , spy out out!

CROW : Man, man is our friend!

SNB : Lies! Four legs good, two legs bad! If you want sugar and ribbons then
storm the house for sugar and ribbon. I want Animal Power. (!) Who’ll storm
the house with me? Who will avenge Old Major and take what is ours? Who
will stay a slave and who will be free?

ALL : Freedom, freedom.

DOG : Now is the hour!

WORKER 1 : The great horse Boxer rises up and kicks down the door of the
Farm House Q1. The Revolution is Now! Q2

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NAP : Animals. Leave this house. That is not a place for animals. Here are the
beds we must not sleep upon, the clothes we must not wear. The knives we
must not cut flesh with, the beer we must not drink. Let this place be a
museum of Terror. We are Animals and we rule the Farm!

ALL : Revolution !

SNB : Comrades, the Revolution has won. But we have a long day before us.
Today we begin the hay harvest. But there is another matter
We pigs can reveal that during the past three months we have taught
ourselves to read.

NAP : Comrade Snowball here is such a clever pig that he has learnt to write as
well as read. Raise the banner, Comrade Snowball name this farm !

SNB : Thank you Comrade Napoleon Pig.

ALL: Animal Farm!

SCENE 4

NAP : Come come, enough celebration! Work is our reward!

SNB : Work for ourselves! Not for man!

NAP : To the fields to harvest hay! Dog, cover your teeth is cloth and learn to
milk the cows. We will work faster and better than we ever did as the slaves of
Man.

DOG : rrrr... milk !

SNB : Forward Comrade Animals.

BOXER : Neigh To work, to work, I will work harder and harder, I will work until
my lungs burst for Animal, Animal-

ALL : Animal Farm ! Q3

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SCENE 5

WORKER 1 : Back at the Farm buildings, Snowball is painting the Great

Principles of the Animal Revolution on the Wall of the big barn.

SCENE 6

NAP : I would help you Comrade Snowball. But your writing is so much better
than mine.

SNB : No problem, Comrade Napoleon Pig, it is an honour to proclaim our

Revolutionary principles and I appreciate your guidance. There – finished the
Seven Commandments of Animalism!

NAP : Bravo Comrade. Now we need a flag. Every movement has a flag.

SNB : We can use this old table cloth of Jones’. I can paint a horn on it to
symbolise the power of the beast!

NAP : No no Comrade, we should have a pig’s snout, for the pig is the highest
of animals!

SNB : We cannot glorify ourselves!

NAP : Enough of your false modesty Comrade. You look down even on the
other pigs with your clever clever snortings and squealings, just because you
read and write so well! Q4

SNB : Comrade Pig, that is not comradely ! Look, here come the animals back
from work – show a united front. Smile.
Welcome, welcome, heroes of labour! While you have been harvesting the first
ever harvest to be gathered by animals Comrade Napoleon and I have been
writing the Seven Commandments–

DOG : Milk? Where has the milk gone?

BOXER : Hush, listen to the wise piggy Comrade.

NAP : Hooray for me and the Pigs, we have laboured so hard today fellow
animals – writing out the seven commandments and designing a flag to fly
above our farm.

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SNB : I know at the moment few of you can read, but I will set up reading and
writing committees, to go along with the white wool committee for sheep and
the brown egg committee for hens and the –

DOG : Milk drinking committee for dogs!

SNB : Humour is always welcome comrade Dog.

DOG : So where’s our milk?

SNB : Have you drunk all the milk?

NAP : The milk is where it belongs, Comrade Dog, feeding the brains that keep
this farm independent. What is labour without intelligence? It's hard to think.
It’s only fair that I and the other pigs have food for our brains. Without a plan,
Farmer Jones would be back! And would you want that Comrade animals?

ALL : no no!

SNB : So Comrade Napoleon and his assistant pigs have drunk the milk today as
a…

NAP : Revolutionary act.

BOXER : Long live Comrade Napoleon!

SNB : Long live us all… Q5

SCENE 7

The Pub

CAT: Meow.

JONES : They call my farm, Animal Farm. What d’you say to that?

FARMER 1 : It’s a joke.

JONES : I’m not laughin’ neither are you.

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FARMER 1 : If my animals get to hear of what’s happening up there they will
revolt too. We’ll have a general animal Revolution – then where will we be?

JONES : Farmers without Farms!

FARMER 2 : Don’t worry. They’ll starve soon enough. Whoever heard of

animals running a farm. I bet the cows udders are bursting with milk.

FARMER 1 : The fields grown over with weeds.

FARMER 2: The dogs will be eating the chickens.

FARMER 1 : And the pigs eating each other. Pigs love bacon.

JONES : I love bacon, ham, sausage, steak, chicken breast. I could kill ‘em all
and eat the lot of ‘em.

ALL : What a feast…bacon, ham, sausage, steak and breast of breast of..hen.

FARMER 1 : Chickens nuggets...!

FARMER 2 & JONES : chicken nuggets ? chicken nuggets !

JONES : Let’s take back the farm and eat them all.

FARMER 2 : Or sell ‘em. Restock with quiet and obedient beasts.

FARMER 1 : Let’s do it. Action now empty words.

FARMER 2 : Do what? Eat? I’ll get a pack of nuts.

JONES : Make it two packs, and pint for me.

FARMER 1 : Oh drunken idiots! Hold. Let’s take back the farm. By force!

JONES : Fighting talk!

FARMER 1 : I’ll get some lads. We’ll get pitchforks and skewer the lot of ‘em –
like…kebabs.

JONES : I have me shotgun! Bang!

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FARMER 1 : We’ll set fire to the barn – roast them alive.

JONES : When, when!

FARMER 1 : Tomorrow. At dawn!

JONES : That’s a bit early.

FARMER 1 : Alright at 11 o’clock. We’ll have Manor farm back before lunch.

JONES : Then back to the pub to celebrate victory over Animal Farm!

JONES&FARMER 1 : To the end of Animal Farm!

JONES: Oh Christ ! I’m going to be sick.

CAT : Meow… Q6

SCENE 8

The Battle of the Cowshed

SNB : Comrade Animals. Comrade Cat of the Animal Secret Service has alerted
me to an evil plan hatched by the humans. Tomorrow they attack, tomorrow
they fall into my trap!

CAT : Meow!

WORKER 2 : The next morning, about an hour late, the human’s come to the
farm.

DOG : Woof. Comrade Snowball, the humans are approaching.

SNB : How many?

DOG : Woof Twelve, Comrade. Blackbirds report the humans are entering by
the side lane forme the pub.

SNB : Just as I thought, they march from the pub not the village.

DOG : Woof. Q7

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SNB : News, Comrade?

DOG : Woof, the Humans are in the yard.

SNB : Victory is within our grasp. Now – charge!

NAP : Victory.

SCENE 9

LAMB : Baa, but Jones shot my sister. Q7

BOXER : I killed a man. I crashed his head with my hooves, my horse shoe
hooves. I am so sorry…

SNB : He was only a human. Our enemy. Revolutionaries cannot be

sentimental about enemies of the Revolution! Bury the sheep with full military
honours.

DOG : Begging to report Comrade, the man Boxer hit was only stunned and has
run away towards the pub.

BOXER : I am happy that is so…er…Comrade. I have taught him a lesson.

SNB : I am creating a medal, Animal Hero. The dead sheep will be awarded
Animal Hero second class and Animal Hero first class will be given to…given
to…

BOXER : Comrade Snowball, our own animal Julius Caesar!

SCENE 10

NAP : Yes hasn’t Snowball done well. Too well. Cat, cat.

CAT : Meow.

NAP : I have control of the milk and the cream on this farm.

CAT : Mmmm…mmm...meow!

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NAP : I would like you to find out some things about glorious Animal Hero First
Class Snowball...

SNB : This day shall forever be know as the glorious day of the battle of the
Cowshed ! Q08

SCENE 11

Snowball and Napoleon

WORKER 1 : Winter is cold, hard on Animal Farm. But Snowball keeps up their
flagging spirits with his restless energy and patriotic speeches!

NAP : Propaganda, puffed up self congratulatory piggish pride!

SHEEP : Ba baa, Comrade Napoleon.

NAP : More fodder for sheep!

SNB : To each animal according to their need, from each animal according their
ability. Equality.

NAP : Equal-eaty! Food before words! What about the crops? What do we
sow?

SNB : Oats.

NAP: Nonsense, it’s wheat we need.

SNB : Horses can only eat oats and the horses such as Boxer do most of the
hard work on this farm.

NAP : We all need more food, not just the horses! Sheep can’t digest oats!

SHEEP : Babb Baa Hoorah!

SNB : Comrade Animals we will work longer hours to have more food!

NAP : If you work harder you need more food. A longer day is a waste of time
and resources!

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SHEEP : Baa Baa we need rest! We need rest.

SNB : We will have more rest and we will have more work, we will have oats
and honey. We will build an Animal Paradise on Animal Farm. (Pause) Hooray!
I said, hooray for the Animal Future!

NAP : There’s a meeting of the young pigs that needs to sort out the milk
quota. I suggest you go along.

SNB : I really think we should share the milk.

NAP : Try telling that to the pigs.

SNB : I will.

NAP : Not a way to be a popular pig, Comrade. But go ahead Saint Snowball. I
need to meet with the dogs.

SNB : Oh how are they?

NAP : Hungry, angry.

SNB : Well good for our defence, eh?

NAP : Trot off now.

NAP : What an idiot, what a pathetic porker. He has to go.

SCENE 12

NAP : Now Comrade hounds. Dogs need flesh. All Snowball gives you is oats. I,
Napoleon, have found these tins of beef in the Farm cellar! Real meat, bloody
meat. Snowball wanted to bury the tins. I saved them for you! My dog.

DOG : Nap -(bark) -leon!

NAP : All I ask in return is that when the time comes you remember who
looked after you.

DOG : Nap-(bark)-leon!

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NAP: I will take three of your puppies. I will feed them well and train them.
Train them up to be my Rottweilers. My body guard, my special forces. Long
live Animal Farm!

DOG : Ruff! Long live Animal farm. Q09

SCENE 13

Boxer the worker

CROW : Look at Boxer- Boxer the mighty horse. Once he ploughed and worked
under a human whip. Now he works twice as hard for the Animal Revolution!

BOXER : I must work harder I must work harder!

CROW : Is there a little worry in your big horse head? A worry that the
Revolution might have made the animals happy but it has also made them
hungry.

BOXER : Worry bird– get out of my big horse’s head. Forward, I must work
harder – we all must work harder to build the Animal Future!

CROW : Sugar happy Heaven is so much nicer than Animal Farm.

BOXER : Get away Crow. Back to the sky and out of my horses head. If you
think I think, I don’t. Pigs think. That is their work. My work is to work. So go! I
will work harder!

DOG : Public meeting, public meeting all animals to assemble by the cow shed.

SCENE 14

SNB : Comrade Animals, the future is a machine. Our own bodies are strong,
but the machine is always stronger. We have had our problems with food. I
know. And we have not shared the food we have in a fair and equal way.

DOG : Wouf

SNB : Yes I am dealing with the milk. The answer is a machine to provide more
food from less work.

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SHEEP : More food, less work, more food less work!

SHEEP DOG BOXER : More food, less work, more food less work! More food,
less work, more food less work!

SNB : So we must build a windmill! The mill will be a mighty machine to lift us
from the dark age of physical labour to the gleaming new light of
mechanisation! Animal paradise !

BOXER : pa – ra-dise

SHEEP : Baa – how will be build a Windmill?

SNB : From these plans, that I have drawn - using books I have found and read,
photographs I have studied. Here– here are the plans for the great Windmill of
Animal Farm!

NAP : Comrade, let me have a look. Nonsense. It’ll never work. You’ve made a
pigs ear of that – it human nonsense. Treason really – will you be sleeping in a
bed soon?

BOXER : I think the windmill sounds good, Comrade Napoleon. More food less
work.

SNB : Yes yes, Comrade Boxer, it will rise and its sails fill out own future with
the wind of change – a wind of change that will bring in a new age – for what is
Revolution without the dream of a better life, a perfect life an animal Paradise.
Long live the Windmill of Animal Farm.

NAP : Dog ! Q10

DOG : Woof...woof...woof...

NAP : Traitor! My dear Animals. Snowball has always been a traitor, a spy for
Farmer Jones. He has been sabotaging the Farm, which is why there is not
enough food.

BOXER : But we saw Snowball fighting off Farmer Jones. We gave him a medal.

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NAP : My dear Comrade Boxer. He fooled you. It was all a trick worked out with
Farmer Jones in the pub. My cat saw Snowball meeting with the Farmer before
the attack.

DOG : Wouf ! Wouf!

NAP : Why do you think Farmer Jones shot the Sheep?

SHEEP : Shame shame!

BOXER : What ?

NAP : Farmer Jones did not shoot Snowball who seemed to be leading the
charge – because…because…

SHEEP : Baah-cause Jones sand Snowball were on the same side!

NAP : Yes, yes. Snowball was a traitor and a saboteur and Animal Farm is free
without him.

BOXER : Well you always know best Comrade Napoleon. We can find out more
about all this at Sunday’s meeting.

NAP : These Sunday meetings of all the farm are a waste of time. In future all
questions about to the working of the farm would be settled by a special
committee of pigs….with one animal at the top.

SHEEP : Nap – baah – leon, Nap bahh – leon!

NAP : Me!. The pig committee will meet in private and afterwards then tell you
what to do. Each Sunday the Animals will still sing Beasts of England ; but
there will be no more talking about things. No more wasting time with
opinions when there is work to be done for:

SHEEP : Animal Farm!

DOG : Wouf...

NAP : And I think we should build the windmill.

BOXER: What!

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NAP : Comrade Boxer, the Windmill was my idea in the first place. The criminal
Snowball stole the plans from me.

COW : Just a Moo-ment, Comrade Napoleon. I re-moo-ember you – I am a shy

cow – you know – I remoo -ember you –you said the plans that - er traitor
Snowball made for the windmill were bad.

NAP : Fake news! How dare you repeat this slander how would I, chairman of
Animal Farm Everything Committee.

BOXER : I also remember – in my head – I remember..

SHEEP : Four legs good two legs bad. Four legs good two legs bad.

SHEEP&BOXER : Four legs good two legs bad. Four legs good two legs bad.

NAP : Thank you Comrades for your voices of support. When the Windmill is
built we will have so much free time, so much more food. Now Boxer we need
you to drag the large stones. Can you do that Comrade, heroic Comrade
worker? Can Animal Farm rely on you, Comrade Boxer to build our future?

BOXER: Of course. I am your horse! I will work harder. For the future of Animal
Farm and for Comrade Napoleon ..who :

SHEEP : Is always right!

DOG : Wouf.

BOXER : Is always right

SCENE 15

Building the Windmill and drinking the milk. Q11

SCENE 16

Windmills and Rebels.

WORKER 1 : Months passed, in summer the working day is extended with the
light. By July the Windmill was built.

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COW : Well done Boxer. Now you can take the rest you deserve. What would
we do without you?

BOXER : I am tired. But when I look up at the our great windmill my chest – my
great chest – bursts with Pride. And I want no rest.

NAP : Comrade Animals. Building the Windmill –

SHEEP : Your windmill, Baa – your idea, your plans, Napoleon!

NAP : Well, yes, my Windmill. Now, Comrade Animals. We have won so much
but sadly it is not enough. How will the farm grow rich without the things we
cannot make however hard we and our windmill work?

BOXER : I don’t understand.

SHEEP : You never do. Baa.

NAP : Hush, hush my heroes. We need horse shoes for the hooves of our
horses, dog biscuits for our dogs, oil for the mill, nails and screws. It’s a long
list. The list of what we cannot make.

BOXER : but what can we do?

NAP : We can trade. We will trade what we do have wheat, eggs a little milk for
what we need.

BOXER : But what other animals have these things that we need?

NAP : Humans have what we need, humans want what we have. So I have
invited a lawyer by the name of Mr Whymper to visit the farm to set up trade
with ourselves and the village.

BOXER : What, humans on our farm!

NAP : It is settled. So we pigs are moving into the Farmhouse which we will
turn into the Head office. This meeting is over. Any one against this idea can go
to the dogs. Back to work Comrades. What greater pleasure is there than
working for the Revolution?

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COW : I remember what Old Major said. No animal shall live in the house, no
animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal must use money or drink alcohol or...

HEN : Be a dictator over other animals – or kill them.

COW : My mother was killed by Jones, cut up for beef for his table. You don’t
think Napoleon would kill us, do you?

HEN : I think Nap – “he” would do anything, Cluck cluck.

COW : He has taken all the best milk, the calves are thin, one died of hunger
last week.

HEN : Listen, but don’t tell anyone.

COW : What? It will be a secret.

HEN : I saw that man Whymper and two pigs drag a sack into his car. There was
a hoof ticking out, a cow’s hoof. Napoleon took money for the cow and
Whymper took it to the Butchers in the village. I pretended to be looking for
food on the ground but I saw it all. They think I am just a stupid Hen but I know
what’s going on. I’ve told the hens what’s going on. You tell the cows.

COW : Tell them what? I don’t know what I should tell them, dare tell them.
What is going on?

DOG : What’s going on here? Grrr...

HEN : Cluck cluck cluck.

COW : Just a stupid Hen.

DOG : Grrr-grrr ...great. Now get along to the meeting. There are new orders
being given. You Hens are in for a big surprise.

COW : I’m hungry.

DOG : Grrwhat?

COW : I used to get more hay in winter when Jones was in charge. I used to
give less milk too.

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DOG : Very well, very well. You come with me to the meeting and tell
Comrade Napoleon about how things were so much better when Jones ran the
farm.

COW : Oh, I didn’t mean that – I meant..I just wanted to..

DOG : To Enjoy the glorious paradise on earth that is Animal Farm. Yes?

COW : Yes Comrade. You put the words into my mouth. Thank you Comrade.
AA very Moo-ving speech. Q12

SCENE 17

A Man on the Farm

NAP : Mr Whymper, Mr Whymper, coo-eee!

DOG : wouf, wouf, wouf

NAP : Dog, here. Don't worry, Mr Whymper. You are under my protection. You
see this dog This dog would have jumped for your throat in the old days. Now
he is so happy. Tickle his belly. Oh sorry, Mr Whymper. We just eat so much
nowadays that I feel sleepy! Most of us sleep half the day, we just don’t need
to work as the farm is so successful!

WHYMPER : Well, Sir…I am most impressed. The Windmill is really a great

achievement. You can see it from everywhere in the village. I knew Manor
Farm in the old days. It was always poorly run by Jones. Look at it now. Clean
as a whistle. Tidy. Ordered. We thought you lot were beasts and would be so
stupid you would soon die of hunger! Well –

NAP : How wrong you were.

WHYMP : How wrong we were.

NAP : So this surplus all this extra food we have, it will rot unless we trade it
for goods from the Village.

WHYMP : Which is why I am here, Mr er Sir Pig. Or Comrade -I ..er

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NAP : Napoleon, just call me Napoleon. And drop this Comrade nonsense. I
mean business. Now come into the farmhouse.

WHYMP : You..you are living in the Farmhouse? Oh – yes…of course – why

not? And then down to business... How many hundred eggs can you deliver
each week? Your preliminary list suggests a truly impressive number of eggs…

SCENE 18

The revolt of the Hens.

HEN 1 : Four hundred eggs a week!

HEN 2 : Four hundred eggs! I am not laying another egg!

HEN 3 : I will lay mine on the roof rafters then…a little flick and and crash.

HEN 1 : Smash our eggs rather than give them to Napoleon and his

ALL : Man Whymper – the Man!

ALL : No eggs for Humans. No eggs for humans!

HEN 3 : I want little chicks. Little fluffy chicks. They want to eat my baby….

HEN 1 : Chicken nuggets next. Chicken nuggets next. After the eggs they will
sell us and slaughter us. They will sell us and slaughter us for:

ALL: No no! Hens for Hens. Chickens for chickens and Animals for Animal Farm.

NAP : Traitors! Allies of Farmer Jones, enemies of Animals. This door will
remain locked until you send four hundred eggs to the Central Pig Committee.
You will get no food, no water. Any hen who tries to leave the barn will be
eaten by the dogs.

HEN 2 : Chicken nuggets ! Q13

WORKER 1 : You cannot fight the pigs. You must understand that the truly
terrifying thing about our life of animal farm is not the hard work for poor pay
in miserable horrible conditions but the complete loss of hope. The end of our
Dreams and the dreams of our animal fathers.

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Without water for five days, nine hens die of thirst. After a week the Hens
surrender and hand over four hundred eggs. They bury the dead hens in the
compost heap. This is the last fight against to the power of Napoleon.

SCENE 19

Snowball returns

DOG : News, news Comrades, gather gather by the windmill. News News!

BOXER : Just let me get out of harness. This plough shaft is so heavy.

NAP : Oh Boxer, Boxer, you are here. We need you to defend Animal Farm one
more time.

BOXER : What! Are the humans attacking?

COW : Is Whymper an agent!

NAP : No, no – worse worse news! Bad bad news!

ALL : What?? What?

NAP : Snowball is back.

BOXER : Has he come to say Sorry?

NAP : No, idiots, he has come to end the Revolution, to destroy Animal Farm.
Which was Snowball’s plan from the very start. Goose step forward!

Q14

GOOSE : Quack quack. I confess that I secretly met with Snowball on three
nights behind the cowshed. Snowball asked me to discover weak points in our
fences to enable Jones and his men to attack and take back Animal Farm.

BOXER : But I remember Snowball fighting bravely against Jones and his men.
We gave him a medal.

NAP : That was our mistake, comrade, he was trying to kill us.

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GOOSE : It’s true. Snowball told me he was working for Jones all the time. Me
too. I was paid in food by Snowball to work for Jones.

NAP : Death to the traitors!

BOXER : Stop, no animal shall kill another animal!

NAP : Now get back to work. And if anyone sees or hears anything of the
traitor Snowball report it to me immediately.

HEN : Excuse me, Napoleon er Comrade Napoleon.

NAP : Yes…?

HEN : I confess to leading the revolt of the hens. I confess to telling the hens to
fly into the roof and let their eggs smash on the ground rather than give up our
eggs for sale to the Village.

NAP : Why did you do that? Why? Why!

HEN : Because Snowball told me to. Because I hate the Revolution. Because I
am a traitor.

NAP : Dog ! Kill that Hen. Q15

NAP : Now onto a more pleasing subject. Animal Farm needs a constitution –
especially if we are to we must be be respected by the other farms, the human
farms. We have decided to declare Animal Farm a Republic.

DOG : I hereby nominate Comrade Napoleon as first president of the Republic.

Everyone breath in and all those are in favor breath out. Motion carried.

NAP : I humbly accept the honour of leading this Republic of Liberated Animals
to even greater glory. Now back to work.

BOXER : I don’t know what is more shocking, the killings or the fact that
Snowball was a traitor all the time.

COW : Do you believe that, Boxer?

BOXER : Well, the hens did confess.

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COW : They did.

BOXER : Come on Comrade there is work to be done. I must work harder!

COW : Stop, Boxer, stop. Look. The sixth commandment has been changed.

BOXER : I can not read.

COW : It now says “No animal shall kill another animal” –

BOXER : As it should.

COW : But they added two words.

BOXER : So?

COW: No animal shall kill another animal without cause. Q16

SCENE 20

Pigs and men drinking

COW : Almost dusk Boxer. We can’t work in the dark.

BOXER : If I had the eyes of an owl I could, but I have to confess my eyes are
getting weaker as I get older. Sometimes I mistake a bush for a dog!

COW : What’s that noise?

BOXER: It sound like pigs but slurred.

NAP : It’s all mine. I am prssy- presy-dint of all I see. Oh can a pig jig? I think I
can – hey Piggies watch my jiggies – gimme another drink!

COW : That’s Napoleon.

BOXER : Our President.

COW : I thought the Animal Commandments said that no animal may drink
alcohol?.

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BOXER : I think we should go. I’m tired.

COW : I don’t know what to think. I sometimes have thoughts, bad thoughts.

BOXER : There are no bad thoughts. Just thoughts we do not understand. Let’s
go.

NAP : hey Piggies watch my jiggies... Oh dear.. I think I’m going to be sick! Q17

PUT BACK / IF I WAS THE ONLY PIG IN TH WORLD song.

SCENE 21

DOG : Comrades, it has been a ‘ruff’ – night. Our dear President, he greatest
animal who has ever graced this land, the most astonishing and wonderful
leader we have ever or will ever know is …is:

ALL : What? What!

DOG : Dying.

SHEEP : What are we to do? How can we - Baaa life without our leader?

DOG : We dogs are very sentimental, we become very attached to..to..father

figures.

SHEEP : What are we going to do?

BOXER : Work. Work harder for our leader. For our Farm.

COW: I’m hungry.

DOG : Who said that? Grrrrr

COW : I’m angry - that Fate should take away our great Leader.

DOG : Go to work. The pigeons will distribute news every hour. I have a good
nose. I can smell death. Napoleon is dying…

BOXER : I will work harder.

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COW : You are pushing yourself too much. You are not as young as you used to
be, dear Boxer.

BOXER : I am as young as I will ever be. So I push on.

PIGEON : Coo coo. News news.

BOXER : I fear the worst.

COW: I hope for the best.

SHEEP : Baa Baa – four legs good two legs bad, help us Leader, stay with us in
these baaa-d times.

PIGEON : Comrade Napoleon is better! He is recovered. Our leader now has

nothing more than a head ache!

SHEEP : Baa-ck form the Dead! A miracle.

PIGEON : Now I must spread the news far and wide – coo coo – ne -oooo –
ews. Neooo-ws!

COW : Stop, stop up on the side of the windmill.

BOXER : I can’t read.

COW : The Animal Commandments – number two has changed.

BOXER : Changed? How can you change what Old Major gave us.

COW : Just two words: No animal shall drink too much alcohol.

BOXER : Too much?

COW: There is a little arrow and ‘too much’ has been added in red paint.

BOXER : Is that right?

COW : I’m not even starting to think about that. Cows are not famous for being
intelligent.

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BOXER : The pigs and the dogs know best Q18

SCENE 22

JONES : Bloody Animals. We should slaughter them and eat them. That fat
Napoleon would make great bacon!

WHYMPER : You know Jones, that Napoleon is a very smart pig. You bred him.
Compliments to you.

FREDERICK : There is a stack of beech wood on the farm that is worth a small
fortune. A lot of money. Do you think I can get my hands on it, Whymper little
man ?

WHYMPER : I could negotiate for you, Frederick, but you will not get it cheap.

FREDERICK : Unless I pay in fake bank notes…you don’t think a pig knows a
forgery from a real money eh?

WHYMPER : That is one way to do business, Mr Frederick.

JONES : Business? Business! With animals ! Kill the animals, eat them not pay
them! We blow up their windmill, then march in and get back my farm, Manor
Farm!

WHYMPER : Mr Jones, I am a lawyer your plans involve criminal acts of

violence. As a lawyer I can have no part in these dealings…

JONES : Idiot...

WHYMPER : But as a human, as man, I will do all I can to help you take control
of so called Animal Farm.

FREDERICK : And give it back to him?

WHYMPER : No, he is as bankrupt as he is drunk. I own his debts. My plan is to

attack. Blow up the windmill as Jones said then grab the farm. I have been
using my weekly visits to spy out the land. We can win. They have only one
really effective fighter, that horse…Boxer I think. Shoot him and we will easily
win. they will be a pushover...all the farmers in this land will thank us.

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FREDERICK : I want profit, Whymper, not glory.

WHYMPER : We can have both. What d’you say, Frederick?

FREDERICK : You can use my van. Borrow my shotgun. But I’m not with you –
or him.

WHYMPER : Well the other local farmers are right behind this plan.

FREDERICK : Then you don’t need me. And if you call me a coward I will smack
you in the face.

WHYMPER : I respect you Mr Frederick you are the richest farmer in the
village for a reason, when we have taken back the farm I will look forward to
doing business with you.

BOTH : Cheers Q19

SCENE 23

The Windmill and the Song

COW SHEEP BOXER : Beast of England 1&4

NAP : Comrade, the past is over. We will never sing Beasts of England again.
We will have a new song for our glorious age. This dog here has set a few
words of mine to music.

DOG : President Comrade Napoleon is the greatest composer of our age. I

simply howled a tune with his inspiration and instruction. Ruff work!

NAP : I must confess to have hidden my artistic talents…

DOG : Genius

NAP : but they just rise to the surface.

SHEEP : The Baa-st artist of our time!

NAP: No, no, please please..it’s nothing. Just a talent…

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DOG: Genius.

NAP: Alright, a little genius..nothing really just…

DOG: Genius.

NAP: Well..yes..artistic genius. So let’s sing it shall we?

DOG: Comrade Animals. I say one line and you repeat, follow me : Q20
Animals are free
Paradise can be
How did we get it on?
Only through Napoleon

SHEEP : Baa good Baaa genius.

DOG : One time, follow me, and 1,2,3 sing! Q21

We are surrounded! Help! Run away! Run away!

BOXER : MY hoof, my hoof is shot.

COW : Oh poor Boxer. I’ll get a Hen to peck out the pellets

BOXER : How can I work, if my hoof is split?

COW : You are a hero, heroes don’t have to work. Without you we would
never have fought the humans off. You should get a medal and a rest. Retire.
Didn’t Napoleon say working animals can retire... or was it Snowball – Bad
word.

NAP : Victory! Victory! We have won again, won better, won greater than
before. In honour of the day I shall create the order of the battle of the
Windmill.

DOG : I nominate President Comrade Napoleon as the first bearer of the order
– the medal of the battle of the Windmill.

NAP : I must accept.

COW : Where was he? I never saw Napoleon in the fight.. Boxer you should
have the medal.

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NAP : The medal must also be given to

COW : On Warrior Boxer!

NAP : On the poor sheep who gave her life for our farm.

SHEEP : baaaaa….

NAP : But in this moment of victory I must remind us that the humans have
exploded a bomb inside the windmill, which as you can see is smashed to the
ground. I am stopping Sunday rest , until it is rebuilt.. We will work seven days
a week. Onwards, eh Boxer?

BOXER : I will work harder.

NAP : Good horse. So to work! Q22

SCENE 24

The death of Boxer

BOXER : My lungs, my lungs burst!

HEN : Boxer, Boxer has collapsed.

BOXER : I can’t get up. I must get up! I must work!

COW : Oh Boxer, Boxer dear friend Boxer. I told you, I told you. You work too
hard, you are not as young as you were, you were wounded at the battle of the
windmill!

BOXER : I will be fine, I just need rest then back to work.

COW : No, to retirement. You know what the pigs said : old animals, especially
horses shall have the right to retire and eat oats in the field behind the
cowshed.

BOXER : I shall like that.

COW : I will visit you every day. I shall bring you an apple.

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BOXER : I shall like that.

NAP : Oh my my oh my. Poor comrade Boxer, how are you?

BOXER: I fell, working building the Windmill but I can’t work no more. My lung.

COW : Boxer needs to retire. Like you said Comrade President artist everything
Napoleon. Like you said. Retire to the field behind the cowshed.

NAP : Of course, of course. You deserves a long and comfortable retirement

Comrade Boxer. Hero of battle, hero of labour.

COW : Really! A very mooo-ving speech Comrade President.

NAP : Yes I was moved by my speech too. Even a President has feelings… Poor
Boxer.

COW : Then I will help him to the field.

NAP: No, no no my dear comrade Cow. Boxer must go to the vets, he must
have the finest medical care that Animal Farm can buy.

COW : Comrade President I am moved by your kindness

BOXER : I don’t want to be any trouble, any expense.

NAP : You are no trouble. Your health, your inspiration is a vital part of the
future of Animal Farm. And there will be apples. But there will also be a medal.
Second class but still a medal.

COW : A medal?

BOXER : It's an honour. I am …happy.

NAP : Now, oh dear a tear,… now we must go.

COW : Yes Comrade President. Come on Boxer. Q23

DOG: Ruff ruff life is ruff. I am speaking to you as a spokes-dog for Comrade
President Napoleon as he is crying, real tears! Heroic Boxer is dead. He died in
the arms of his President whilst receiving the finest medical care that money

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can buy. Nothing could save him. Napoleon held his hoof as he passed away..
The last words of Boxer were : May we all work harder for the glory and
prosperity of Animal Farm and our great leader, President Napoleon Pig.

NAP : Yes. A big old horse, useless to us. Good day. Q24

SCENE 25

Equality

WORKER 1 : Years pass. Almost no animals who could remember the old days
when Jones ran the farm, are alive. Many animals are born and they know
nothing of the ‘bad old days’. The windmill is rebuilt but provides no luxuries
for the animals just profit for the pigs and dogs who grow fatter as the rest of
the animals grow thinner. The seven day working week remains in force even
after the windmill is rebuilt. Hens, horses, cows and sheep work hard, too
hard. They are overworked, cold in winter and hungry all year. But they still
remain proud that this is the only farm in the England operated by Animals for
Animals.

COW : I am alive, even if I give no milk. Even if my eyes are fading I remember
the old days, the bad old days. Farmer Jones…

HEN : Was it really bad?

COW : It was not so different. But shhh.

HEN : Have you seen the seven commandments today?

COW : Have they changed again?

HEN : Cluck cluck

COW : What do they say now?

HEN : What’s the best one?

COW : Hmm..I suppose: all animals are equal.

HEN : Come on look. Read it – its big letters.

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COW : All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

DOG : wouf...wouf...wouf...

FREDERICK : Hello! Hello. There there, good boy. Good boy.

DOG : Napoleon sir President Pig. Mr Frederick has arrived for dinner.

NAP : Send him in.

DOG : Welcome. Dinner is in the farmhouse.

FREDERICK : Better than the cowshed, eh?

DOG : Is that a joke? A human joke.

FREDERICK : Sorry sorry, I didn’t mean…

DOG : Mean that we animals eat out of troughs and dog bowls! Never. We
dogs and pigs live in the farmhouse.

NAP : And dress well. Welcome, Mr Frederick. Come on in. The table is laid we
have rack of lamb, steak, organic vegetables and milk pudding.

FREDERICK : Excellent. Do we do business before or after dinner?

NAP : We will sign the contracts before dinner shall we? Then relax over a glass
or two of beer?

FREDERICK : You know when I look around Animal Farm I see animals working
harder, eating less and being more….

NAP : Obedient, silent, happy.

FREDERICK : Than the animals on my own farm. Well done. Congratulations to

Animal Farm

NAP : Oh no.

FREDERICK : No?

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NAP : We had to drop that name it sounds to…

FREDERICK : Revolutionary?

NAP : I can't even say the word myself.

FREDERICK : So what is the new name of Animal Farm?

NAP : New? New! It’s the old ways we want to bring back, the old name too. To
Manor Farm!

FREDERICK : Excellent.

HEN : Which is Frederick? Which is Napoleon?

COW : Pigs and men. Men and pigs. There is no difference.

SCENE 26

WORKER 1 : We tell the truth. Even if you do not like it when you bite into your
WORKER 2 : Potato
WORKER 3 : Gurkin
WORKER 4 : Carrot
WORKER 5: Wich are cheap

ALL: Like us, cheap!

THE END.

Copyright Paul Stebbings 2022

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For use as required

Some quotations from the original preface to ANIMAL FARM (not part of most
copies of the book).

Over and above the familiar Marxist claim that 'bourgeois liberty' is an
illusion, there is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only
defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the
argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. And
who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack
it openly and consciously, but those who 'objectively' endanger it by
spreading mistaken doctrines.

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do
not want to hear
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act." George Orwell
"Tell a lie loud and long enough and people will believe it." Goebbels
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written,
directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism.... Animal Farm was the first
book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse
political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole." George Orwell

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