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A person in a short-sleeved shirt leans against two door frames in a dimly lit room drenched in red light. Their body faces away from the camera, arms outstretched for balance. The dramatic lighting casts deep shadows, creating a tense, immersive, and mysterious atmosphere, evoking a sense of surveillance, control, or psychological pressure.
A performer in a white shirt crouches behind a translucent green plastic sheet, their figure distorted by texture and lighting. The green hue and layered plastic create an eerie, suffocating effect—suggesting themes of entrapment, surveillance, or bio-mechanical environments. The image evokes a futuristic or dystopian aesthetic.
A performer sits encased in translucent fabric, their face obscured by a stark white mask with small eye holes. One hand reaches up to adjust or grasp the fabric, while light casts a patterned shadow across their body. The image evokes themes of identity, restriction, and transformation, creating a surreal and unsettling atmosphere.

Animal Farm

Language commands. Labor obeys.

In this immersive theatre experiment, audiences enter a training center where they’re no longer passive spectators, but obedient recruits—assigned missions, given commands, and trained to become compliant human machines.

Inspired by Orwell’s Animal Farm and Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, this powerful work confronts Asia’s obsession with productivity and linguistic control. Through choreographed command drills, ritualistic labor, and unsettling audience interaction, the piece reveals how power embeds itself in speech, movement, and silence.

Built on East Asian aesthetics and authoritarian codes, the space blurs the line between stage and reality, between person and performer, between freedom and conditioning.

Are you speaking out of choice or compliance?

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Theatre and Physical Theatre • Immersive
Taiwan • World Premiere
 
Culturally and/or linguistically diverse
 
Wed, 25 Feb - Sat, 28 Feb
 
50 min
 
The Library at Ayers House Events
 
PG
 
$20 to $60
 
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