When a garden became the stage, voices came alive through the words of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Each participant stepped into the skin of a different character, pigs, horses, donkeys, and men, lending their breath to Orwell’s timeless allegory. As the chapters unfolded aloud, so did the layers of truth, satire, and revolution buried within them.

This gathering was born from a spark, a memory cherished by members of Local Threads who had once sat enthralled at a play reading of The Trial by @qtpindia (hyperlink). That experience lingered, echoing in their minds long after the final lines were spoken. It stirred something, a longing to recreate that collective rhythm of reading, of shared silences and sudden laughter, of voices rising and falling like a chorus.

A tribute to storytelling as a shared act of awakening.