The Planet of the Apes star is trading in primates for pigs in his upcoming animated adaptation of George Orwell's 1945 satirical allegory Animal Farm. As the director and possible star of the ...

A wise pig, Old Major, inspires the animals to ... Through the characters and events in Animal Farm, Orwell is criticising a leader called Stalin who brought misery to the people of Russia ...

Here are five life lessons from this timeless classic that continue to resonate in the modern world. In Animal Farm, the pigs ...

Mr. Orwell, before the war, was not widely known in America or even, I think, in England. He is one of several English writers who were only just beginning to be recognized in those years of ...

Animal Farm was described by its author George Orwell as a fairytale but the tale of how power corrupts is more of a ...

George Orwell’s allegorical story about animals ... emphatically devoted they are to their offspring. Em Prendergast as pig Milo births a litter while letting out harrowing human wails that ...

“Assume good intentions for as long as you can”, so says the playscript’s prefacing notes. This is the prevailing spirit with which Tatty Hennessy has adapted Orwell’s culturally ubiquitous novel.