Animal Farm in the age of Trump

ABC RN Arts

English - September 28, 2021 00:05 - 54 minutes - 74.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Van Badham is a courageous and funny Australian playwright who, since searching for the humanity of trolls in Banging Denmark at the Sydney Theatre Company, has now adapted George Orwell's Animal Farm for Black Swan in Perth.

Also, historian Michelle Arrow introduces us to two other left-leaning Australian playwrights who raised the ire of the political establishment, Oriel Gray and Mona Brand, and we run through the big winners at this year's Tony Awards.