Animal Farm review " Orwell's unsettling allegory still resonates in the age of Trump, Johnson and Sunak
Octagon, BoltonIqbal Khan's production lays bare the uncomfortable parallels between a mid-20th century Soviet Union and today's marauding politicians How George Orwell would despair at today's political discourse. His power-grabbing pigs in Animal Farm were an allegorical warning against Soviet-style dictatorship and propaganda. The more unequal the once egalitarian animal collective becomes, the more the ruling pig…