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ANIMAL FARM Birmingham Rep’s Animal Farm puppets come to life with d&b Soundscape.
Photos: Manuel Harlan
The Children’s Theatre Partnership and Birmingham Rep’s new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, Animal Farm has opened to rave reviews with a d&b audiotechnik Soundscape-powered sound design curated by Tom Gibbons.
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The production sees War Horse puppeteer Toby Olié’s beautifully crafted horses, pigs, birds and more revolt against their human farmer master. Pre-recorded dialogue is played back live, with on-stage actors moving the mouths of the puppets. A key aspect to the
realism of the surreal piece was accurately positioning the audio script parts to each puppet as they speak. “I knew from early conversations with the Director, Robert Icke, that there would be very little live dialogue in this production, meaning
