Farm der Tiere
Premiere 27.02.2025
Zürich
Regie, Dramaturgie, Video Design Anna-Maria Lipponen
Bühnenbild, Licht und Video Design Petri Tuhkanen
Kostüm Design Coline Meret Lola Jud
Sound design Antti Puumalainen
Video Design Ville Mjhyvönen
Auf der Bühne Tuomas Kiiliäinen, Aleksandra Stoliarova, Leo Gnatzy
Auf Video Liliana Torres Esquivias, Yang Zhao
Voice over Alicia Aumüller, Oliver Losehand, Kristina Malyseva
StudioTotal Helsinki production
All photos © Petri Tuhkanen
It’s the year 2025. On Jones’s farm, the animals have grown tired of their master’s way of running things. One morning, an old sheep shares a prophetic dream in which the animals seize power on the farm. Soon, the dream becomes reality, and Jones is driven from his land.
Among the animals, a new ideology emerges: ANIMALISM – a system where every animal is equal. However, the pig Napoleon eagerly begins to promote the ideology, and soon others start to suspect whether the final commandment has always been: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Director Anna-Maria Lipponen has written a new adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, where not only the animal society but also the farmer Jones embarks on a journey akin to Dante, the protagonist of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, traveling from hell to paradise. The story also features the German TV series phenomenon TATORT.
Animal Farm is a heartbreakingly timely tale about the lust for power and the mechanisms behind the rise of totalitarianism. The production is a total work of art, combining strong theatrical storytelling, film, multilayered sound design, and a meticulously crafted visual world.













Fotos © Petri Tuhkanen, Guillaume Musset