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[email protected] | www.assitej2017.org.za Book at A Mano Animal Farm El Patio Teatro Nobulali Productions A Mano (By Hand) is a tender and delicate Seven decades have passed since the first performance, a theatrical diamond that is publication of Orwell’s Animal Farm, yet a tribute to arts and artisans. It is the story the plight of Manor Farm and its animal of a very small but very special hero with denizens is ever relevant in contemporary a great desire to escape from his pottery South Africa. Dressed in what seems to be shop window and those who live there with the broken fatigues of guerrillas, the him. Told with beautifully crafted clay characters embrace both political identity characters and remarkable artistry, A Mano and farm-animal-hood, teetering between is a touching and life-affirming story about the two in terms of their articulated values love, small failures, a potter’s wheel and and increasing hypocrisy. Muriel the goat four hands at play. El Patio Teatro build, and Clover the sheep effectively act as the model, write, direct and play. Together, Spain narrators in the aftermath of the uprising. South Africa they create moving, reflective and The fiery energy that exists between the all beautifully original performances inspired women cast is palpable, and offers a fresh by stories from everyday life and by the Direction: Julián Sáenz-López, Izaskun Fernández| Design: Julián Sáenz-López , approach to critically examining patriarchal Direction: Neil Coppen | Performance: Mpume Mthombeni, Tshego Khutsoane, lives of objects around them.